Featured Help needed with antique Italian bow pendant

Hello everyone,
Today I got this beautiful pendant. I bought it online and it came from Italy. It was described as being from the twenties but I have my doubts.
I believe it could be quite a bit older. To me it looks like a 19th century pendant that might have started life as something else, maybe part of an earring?
It has had a hard life though. Some of the stones got replaced and part of the gold wire is missing. It might have lost its drop.
The green stones test very differently. Most test as something harder than glass, one or two that look replaced are only a tad below diamond.
The loop is 14 carat gold, pendznt itself does not have any markings but tests as silver.
Can anyone enlighten me on its age, what the stones might be and what could be its original purpose?
I think I might have started a small collection of colored stones!

 

My guess is late 18th. A little beauty, and it works well as a pendant. Stones, possibly chrysolite?

Ditto.

Ditto. A teardrop shape, probably.

 

Can i pick your brain AJ? What clues led you to late 18th century? Just trying to learn.

 

Something along these lines, 18th century foiled topaz and chrysolite ribbon pendant and earrings:


https://www.sjphillips.com/object/829540/18404/18th-century-foiled-orange-topaz-and

 

The history of ribbons in jewellery. They started out as actual silk or satin ribbons, but by the 18th century they had become gold, silver and base metal ribbon jewellery.
During the 19th century there was little interest in bows, but the fashion was revived in the early years of the 20th.

 

Any Jewelry indeed, could be late 18th
Thanks for your opinion

 

I thought maybe that was your clue. You have mentioned bow jewelry before. I should have remembered. Thank you for enlightening me once again.

 

Lark: the ornate closed back, stones shaped especially for the setting and no ordinary form you could just buy in a store...indeed the bow-shape...those are the things that make me think: oldie! although the stones are considerably lesser quality than the Iberian flower head brooch I also posted earlier here

 

You can't remember everything.

 

I m really getting into color now

 

Ditto all that AJ said, maybe add it could be Portugese... chrysoberyl-chrysolite is my thinking too!
For the age, these pink gold beaded lines between the rows of stones is a big clue too

See this one, the shop has/had treasures for the eyes
https://www.hhantiquejewelry.com/shop/late-18th-c-portuguese-chrysoberyl-pendant/

 

Suuupeeerb!!!

 

Kyratango, you nailed it! Indeed Portugese.
I just found my pendants lookalike online, with original drop!
Just a few tiny differences but its definitely close family
It looks sublime!
Still happy with my piece of half pendant though
https://www.lillicoco.com/products/18th-century-portuguese-chrysoberyl-drop-pendant

 

Agree! Wonderful.
Even though yours is not complete, it is complete enough to look like it is complete, if you get my meaning. Of all the incomplete antique jewels I know, this looks most complete.

 

I like more the pendant of Dessert than the one with the drop. Not so heavily decorated and more stylish. Very nice!

I have some modern ribbon brooches, guess they are from the beginning of 20th century as per the timeline described by Any. And almost certainly Czech, the usual suspect