A pair of antique Iberian Catalan earrings, featuring a long cascade of spessartine garnets mounted in yellow gold 18 carats.
Catalane
Late 18th/early 19th century
Length approximately 138mm
Gross weight approximately 49.0 grams
Joan Evans, A History of Jewellery 1100 -1870, London 1953, plate 128 for a pair of earrings of similar design
Daniela Mascetti and Amanda Troissi, Earrings From Antiquity to the Present, London, 1990 pg 60-61 for earrings of similar design
