Jewellery masterpieces

AN IMPRESSIVE DIAMOND STOMACHER BROOCH
Crowned by a spray of diamond-set flowerheads, leaves and buds, suspending a panel of swags, tapering to a point at the base, each with knife-edge and collet centres, to the detachable pear-shaped diamond drops, circa 1860, 12.0 cm. high (flowerhead panel detachable to be worn as two brooches and a pendant, accompanied by an additional brooch fitting, one pendant deficient), in its original refurbished case

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The Native Americans used hematite to make a red face paint called red ocher.

Red ocher