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Art jewellery - neckpendants   
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'Miniatures collection': The Chatelaine. Code: AJminineck1
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| Descriptor: Glistening aqua and iridescent purple glass beads of various sizes - some strung, some woven - form a long rope, from which hangs a tiny, fringed bag woven from beads.
Dimensions. 54 x 3 cms. (Length at its longest point x width at its widest point)
Price. $A155.00
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In medieval Europe, a baron's wife was called the 'chatelaine' (the lady of the castle) and her badge of office was a cluster of storeroom keys hanging from an ornamental hook at her waist. In time, 'chatelaine' referred to the hook itself, then to the whole assemblage; and by the nineteenth century, women wore 'chatelaine bags'. Chatelaine revives that tradition, emphasising looks over function. A tiny woven bag hangs from a complex rope of strung and woven beads in glistening aqua and iridescent purple and is fringed with seed and feature beads in the same colours.
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