Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Mastery of Design: The Harlequin Mask Stickpin, 18th Century



The Victoria & Albert Museum


Today’s sparkly thing is a handsome Eighteenth-Century pin with a head in the form of a porcelain Harlequin’s mask. The mask is surrounded by gold foliage set with rose-cut diamonds, rubies and emeralds. This is the work of an unknown Western European maker.

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