Robert Phillips Archaeological Revival Bracelet

This archaeological revival bangle by Robert Phillips Brothers is composed of 18K gold and enamel, and dates from the 1860s–1870s. The hinged bangle centers a double line of white and blue enamel circular devices and applied beads, all framed in twisted wirework, with a trellised edge of larger beads elevated on posts. An important surviving jewel by a celebrated London artist and designer of the Revival movement, this exquisite bangle represents a high point of this original jeweler's work, which one contemporary reviewer described as belonging in "the jewel box of an Etruscan prince."