Antique Natural Pearl Rose Cut Diamond Silver Upon Gold Crescent Brooch, Circa 1890

An antique crescent brooch, set with natural pearls, graduating from the centre, spaced with tapered settings with rose-cut diamonds, and an inner row, grain set with rose-cut diamonds, mounted in silver-upon-gold, on a gold pierced gallery, circa 1890, with a removable gold pin, accompanied by Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory certificate P 5724 stating that the eleven pearls are natural saltwater pearls.

In Victorian symbolism the crescent or new moon represented a new relationship. Hopeful it will "wax" into matrimony.