Charmed by Spetchley Park: rock crystal pendant soars to 70-times estimate at Sotheby's
This intriguing rock crystal pendant may have been used as a ‘charmstone’. It follows the same form as the famous Glenorchy Charmstone in the National Museums of Scotland and may too have once adorned an early reliquary.
The Glenorchy Charmstone, thought to date to the 7th or 8th century, functioned as an amulet or ta…