Renaissance revival jewel sold for £8500 at Woolley & Wallis.
A Renaissance revival jewel perhaps from the same workshop as the famous Canning Jewel has sold at aucton in Salisbury, writes Roland Arkell.
The Canning Jewel – a baroque pearl pendant in the form of a merman – was once deemed one of the great treasures of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Given to the museum in 1931 by Mrs Edward S Harkness of Connecticut, it had been acquired at Sotheby’s from the collection of the 6th Earl of Harewood for £10,000 – the equivalent of £600,000 today.