A seed pearl pendant and earrings, Southern Italy, early-mid 19th century

A seed pearl pendant and earrings, Southern Italy, early-mid 19th century, comprising: a pendant, designed as a canopy of leaves suspending fruit, constructed from gold filigree threaded with seed pearls, suspending a pearl drop, length 6.8cm, pearls untested; and a pair of pendent earrings, mounted in gold, set with seed pearls, length 7.5cm each, hook and clip fittings

Cf.: Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe, Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World, British Museum Press, 2010, p. 320, no. 276, for an image of similar jewels collected by the jeweller Castellani and displayed at the 1867 International Exhibition in Paris, now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Daniela Mascetti and Amanda Triossi, Earrings from Antiquity to the Present, London, 1990, p.64, for a similar pair of earrings dated to the late 18th century