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Musical jewelry

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Articles of jewelry that embody a small musical mechanism. An example is a gold enamelled pendant in the form of a harp, French, c. 1809, given by Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824) to his wife Auguste Amalie, Duchess of Leachtenburg (d. 1851)

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson