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An early Victorian double-sided pendant with a portrait miniature front and hairwork back, the oval pendant with cast foliate gilt frame holding a half-length portrait of a young girl with blue eyes and carefully arranged light brown hair in long ringlets, wearing a pearl necklace, a light blue décolleté dress and gauzy fichu around her bare shoulders; the reverse also glazed and containing curled and gold wire bound locks of light brown hair, presumably that of the sitter; the pendant with an associated suspensory loop with carved leaf decoration, tests for 15ct gold; length with suspensory loop 6.9cm, length of portrait 4.6cm

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