This Austro Hungarian hanger is decorated with diamonds, rubies emeralds en tiny pearls. Like most Austro-Hungarian jewellery, it is made out of silver. Often, it was dipped into a gold bath to leave it a thin layer of gold. Here that has since disappeared. The Austro-Hungarian period in jewellery dates from the 1870's to around 1910. It was highly influenced by the Renaissance. You could call it a neo-style. Although most jewellery is much more crude than the extremely refined Renaissance work, the better Austro-Hungarian pieces are hard to distinguish from the Renaissance ones. Enamel plays a crucial part in these works, as well as a variety of different gemstones. Many of the pendants portray saints and the ones including fabled animals like St. George slaying the dragon, are a favored subject.