Artist unknown :[Gold and greenstone fern pendant, understood to have belonged to Major Cyprian Bridge. 1800s]

Artist unknown :[Gold and greenstone fern pendant, understood to have belonged to Major Cyprian Bridge. 1800s]
Date
1870 - 1920
By
Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885
Reference
Curios-004-040
Description

Greenstone pendant is in the shape of a small book with three stripes or bars on the spine, and mounted on the front with a gold fern leaf decoration superimposed with the letters NZ. Auction catalogue states that it was "understood to have belonged to Major Cyprian Bridge".

Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 1 curio(s).

Physical Description: Greenstone 26 x 20 x 5 mm, with gold loop and mounted decoration

Transfers: Collection accessioned into Drawings Paintings & Prints; 11 cartes-de-visite of members of the Bridge family transferred to Photographic Archive from there..

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Format
2 watercolour(s), 1 curio(s), Curios, Pounamu, Goldwork (Visual works), Badges, Greenstone 26 x 20 x 5 mm, with gold loop and mounted decoration
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