Flemish cross pendant with diamonds 18 ct rose... Lot 3

Flemish cross pendant with diamonds 18 ct rose gold, silver. Three-part hinged pendant in the Baroque style of very filigree foliage with applied two-tone rosettes. Set in silver with small diamond roses and decorated with three foiled diamond roses in conical gold box settings. Two eyelets on the back for threading a ribbon through. Not stamped. Pendant eyelets attached later. L 7.5 cm. W 4.5 cm. Belgium, late 18th century. This popular pendant, called "Croix à Papillon" or "Croix à la Jeannette", was very common in the Flemish part of Belgium at the end of the 18th century. However, this type can also be found in the Netherlands and northern France. Provenance Private collection Rhineland. Literature Cf. Reddington Daves, Georgian Jewellery, 1714 - 1830, 2010, p. 152. Here a comparable parure from Normandy.