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Antique Ernesto Pierret Italian "Gloria Patri" 21K yellow gold brooch, Etruscan Revival style. Featuring nine (9) natural rectangular brilliant-cut sapphires in the shape of a cross. The brooch is signed "Pierret" on the reverse and "AEI KAI NYN KAI" on the obverse meaning "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be". The brooch XRF tests 21K gold and measures 1 3/4" in size. 18.52 total gross grams. Circa 1860.
PROVENANCE: By descent in the historic Pinckney family of Runnymede Plantation, South Carolina.
CONDITION: Overall good condition.