Georgian Cockfight Miniature Painting Pendant victorian It's finished in beautiful dark

It's finished in beautiful dark turquoise guilloché enamel over 14k gold

but of the brevity and transience of life itself

the head and band are presumably a later marriage

with a relatively low profile from the finger

circa 1935

Georgian Cockfight Miniature Painting Pendant victorian It's finished in beautiful darkDATE: Georgian, c. 1835 A gruesome relic from a bygone age (in England, anyway), this Victorian pedant depicts a cockfight. The two gamecocks have adopted an aggressive stance, mirroring one another, with necks stretched forward poised to strike. They're wearing spurs, and there is what appears to be blood on the floor of the cockpit between them this really was a barbaric "sport" and at this point I'd like to state that we in no way condone