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A tapering facetted hollow gold arc slots into a section of coiled gold wire, the central portion of which is wrapped in a spiral of fine gold wire, which extends round the back of a large floral motif and onto which are threaded blue and a dark red glass beads and gold beads with gold granulated spacers in between. It further connects with a cone-shaped sheet of stamped gold  bisected by a gold granulated disc and a diamond-shaped gold setting for a green glass inset. This completes the circle of the ringout of which  curves the facetted gold arc. The floral motif is decorated with red glass insets on the petals and a green glass inset in the cetnre. The tips of the petals have small granulated motifs  which also are garlanded with tiny hollow gold rings threaded onto wire with tiny blue beads at the apex of each petal. The reverse of this motif has three hoops through which is threaded the gold wire of the nose ring. 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