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Metals: Silver

Silver has been known since ancient times, and is frequently associated with the Moon.

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant by OMAR RAMSDEN & ALWYN CARR, LONDON , from Tadema Gallery

OMAR RAMSDEN & ALWYN CARR, LONDON (worked 1898-1918)
Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant
Silver Enamel Garnet

H 6.10 cm (2.40 in) | W 3.90 cm (1.54 in) | L 44.00 cm (17.32 in)

Origin British, c. 1910
Case Fitted Case
Condition Very good
Weight 25.90 Grams
Beautiful Briar Rose pendant in silver, enamel & garnet. The three drops are also set with Victorian cut garnets

Literature:
cf. Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, Elyse Zorn Karlin, 1993, page 85
Silver Jewelry Designs, Nancy N. Schiffer, 1996, p. 89

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant (shown in fitted case)

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant (front, showing garnet insets on drops)

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant (front)

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant (detail of front enamel)

Briar Rose Arts & Crafts Pendant (back)

Source: Tadema Gallery

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Pendants Tagged With: enamel, garnet, silver

Plique-a-Jour Enamel Egyptian Revival Scarab Brooch

Plique-a-Jour Enamel Egyptian Revival Scarab Brooch (front detail)

With a wingspan of 4 and 3/4 inches, this soaring Egyptian Revival scarab brooch – circa 1920s – glows with translucent turquoise blue and shaded green plique-a-jour enamel feathers. Crafted in 800 silver (possibly German or Austrian origin) – exotically striking and beautiful.

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Plique-a-Jour Enamel Egyptian Revival Scarab Brooch (front)

Plique-a-Jour Enamel Egyptian Revival Scarab Brooch (back)

Plique-a-Jour Enamel Egyptian Revival Scarab Brooch (front)

Filed Under: Brooches & Pins, Revival Tagged With: Egyptian, enamel, plique-à-jour, silver

Strickland Brooch

Strickland Brooch, Anglo Saxon, 9th century

Anglo Saxon, 9th century

Slightly convex bossed disc brooch of sheet silver with inlaid gold and niello ornament. The zoomorphic decoration is deeply carved and pierced to give an open-work effect. Within the beaded rim, a zone of alternate disc and lozenge patterns contains the main decorative field, which consists of a central hollow-sided cruciform design with a boss at its centre and animal-head terminals, with a quatrefoil, the cusps of which terminate in identical animal heads: all the heads are (or were) set with blue glass eyes and are interconnected by a beaded circle. This in turn creates subsidiary fields each containing a puppy-like Trewhiddle-style beast. Four more bosses lie towards the perimeter, behind the animal-heads on the quatrefoils. Numerous gold panels are hammered into the decoration and considerable use is made of speckling and beaded framing. A suspension or keeper loop is attached to one edge of the brooch, at right angles to the direction of the pin catch, only stubs of which remain. The back is otherwise plain.
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Filed Under: Brooches & Pins, Medieval Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon, gold, silver

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