Featured Georgian(?) paste necklace

Hi dear Members,

It was a while, but I didn't waste time and I'm happy to share with you one of my latest finds

I just purchased this wonderful necklace, made of silver with black dot paste stones and fully closed back side (I'm not sure what red metal is).
The pendant is made in a form of Fleur de Lis (if my eyes don't lie me), and I can see that at the bottom of the pendant there was one more suspension, but it is missing now.

The necklace is quite short - 34cm from end to end, but I manage to close it on my neck and it fits like a choker.

Am I right considering it to be Georgian?
I would be grateful if someone could help me to date it more precisely and advise its origin.

As always all comments and opinions are welcome!

 

I think Georgian or thereabouts is right. The clasp is nice. Red metal might well be rose gold. Shame about the dangle, I suspect it might have been a useful clue to origin: to my eye, those designs look symbolic. I don't think English, something in my head says it's French or Flemish.

 

You certainly didn't.

Agree, and very likely rose gold. No idea about the origin.

 

That is a stunner!

 

Even in this state it looks gorgeous, I imagine how good it would be with that missing dangle
Thank you for a clue regarding origin

 

I'll need to check it for gold))

 

Agree

 

The dangle could have gone missing 150 years ago, but don't you wish you could find it!

 

I do wish I could find it, but even without it I still adore this necklace!

 

What a lovely & interesting piece. I agree the sensibility is not British, but can't say more than that on origin. And Georgian era also seems right.

I have a slender/scrawny neck. If it stops fitting you, I will happily accept it.

 

I have my eyes out for black dot, but the earliest piece of jewelry I ever found was engraved in the late 1830s. Straight to the hoard it went, of course, but congrats on finding some in any condition at all.

 

I love black dot. And I’d have grabbed this in a heartbeat.

I wonder if the missing dangle was a triangle the other way up. That would balance it, hm?

I’m still pondering origin.

 

I think I'll resell it, but a little later. I'm not ready to part with it yet; it shines so beautifully that I can't stop looking at it

 

I had only seen one brooch before, but the stones were in a deplorable state.
It's funny that I noticed this necklace quite by accident, because it was lying in the far corner of the display table and I couldn't see it. I was about to leave, when I noticed a sparkle. As soon as they handed it to me, I knew immediately what it was!

 

Might be a triangle, or maybe some kind of a drop/pear shaped paste.

 

Such things can run, but they can't hide!

 

I think a pear/teardrop shape, but not a single paste.

I can't see it being French or Flemish, but wonder if it could be Iberian. Although the Iberians had access to stunning stones and used them generously, they occasionally used paste instead.

 

Great minds, aj. I looked at it again last night and wondered if Spanish was a possibility. It has a certain formality to it.

 

Oh, hang on. The dangle might have been a cross. That would fit really well with Spanish formal jewels. And the cross embellished with those rose gold studs too.

 

Could it be Portuguese? I know they have a lot of great black dot paste jewellery examples... a cross would make sense, especially if consider fleur de lis as a symbol of holly trinity