In Fine Style
This fascinating and sumptuously illustrated book celebrates the world of high fashion in the Tudor and Stuart period.
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Lesser George known as ‘The Strafford George’
last quarter 17th centuryOnyx: brown, light grey, dark grey; gold, silver, enamel, Dutch rose-cut diamonds | 8.0 x 4.8 cm (whole object) | RCIN 441379
Obverse: circular cameo of St. George slaying the dragon with the Princess in the background; set in a gold mount and framed with eight rose-cut diamonds in silver collets. The gold suspension ring has a large rose-cut diamond in a silver collet. Reverse: oval enamel miniature painting of St. George and the dragon surrounded by the Garter and motto of the Order of the Garter ‘HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE’; (Shame on him who thinks evil of it); with surrounding scalloped border of white enamelled gold with black and pink scrollwork.
