This bracelet is made of of the intertwined hair of Emily and Anne Brontë and was owned by their sister Charlotte.
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects.
Here’s an excerpt, about the miniature books the Brontë children constructed.
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Ii's most like the book mentions this was in Mr. Nicholls possession for 50 years and then sold at Southey's in 1907 It's beautifully done. I wonder if CB had it made in London?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAm inclined to think Anne made the herringbone band, 'tho Charlotte was nimble-fingered and meticulous, perhaps a jeweler mounted the stones. We know it was made by 1838 because the (c. 1" wide) herringbone band and purple amethyst (of exact colour) is on her left wrist in Landseer's 1838 w/colour. On other wrist she (proudly) wears her 'v.v.v.rare' jet bangle with 'tied bow attachment', she wore 'till it fell to pieces- the only other example of a jet bangle known in 19th c. art is in Landseer's pastel of novelist, author, women's campaigner and law-reformer Caroline Norton, 1837- the year Landseer walked to Whitby. Chrltt's oval brooch-mount was likely made to order, to suit her 30 X 40mm miniature oval sepias. Em's black pen likely completed the trio of gifts.
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