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236 SILICATES

Pendant | This 19th-century Spanish pendant is in the form

of a hippocamp with a female figure. The body is set with

cabochon emeralds and hangs from a chain with four pearls.

The cartouche is set with an emerald and a suspended pearl.

Emerald set in cartouche

Gold link set

with pearl

Ancient Egyptian

civilizations

regarded emeralds

as a symbol of

life and fertility

Large cabochon

emeralds

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