Ludovica, 1902

A small Edwardian thing, and a serious one. The old-cut diamonds is catching the light along one edge and nowhere else, the knife-edge galleries unmistakable. The work is so even you would swear a machine did it, though none then could. It reached us out of a Bruges family, unworn for a lifetime and none the worse for it. Pieces like this do not come apart; they were built to be handed on.