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A hair ornament with three-colour gold and enamel mount, apparently unmarked but probably French, late 18th century, of diadem form, inset with a central English oval enamel plaque painted imitating a cameo with the bust of young Hercules, flanked by two blue and black taille d'epargne enamel lyres, the gold ground chased with a quiver and laurel above coloured gold foliage on a sable ground, below a border of enamelled roundels, set on a tortoiseshell comb, height 11.7cm, 4.625in
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A hair ornament with three-colour gold and enamel mount, apparently unmarked but probably French, late 18th century, of diadem form, inset with a central English oval enamel plaque painted imitating a cameo with the bust of young Hercules, flanked by two blue and black taille d'epargne enamel lyres, the gold ground chased with a quiver and laurel above coloured gold foliage on a sable ground, below a border of enamelled roundels, set on a tortoiseshell comb, height 11.7cm, 4.625in
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