Early Victorian rose cut diamond drop earrings. A matching pair, each set with forty mixed rose cut diamonds in open back cutdown settings, the pair with an approximate combined weight of 1.80 carats, to an elegant openwork drop shape pendant issuing from an articulated foliate element and suspended from a drop shape cluster surmount, with finely pierced fancy backholing and fitted to reverse with a secure hinged back closure, approximately 2.2" in length, with removable lower section to allow earring to be worn as a single diamond cluster. Tested yellow gold and silver, English, circa 1850.
