A C&N Buttons and Jewellery Production neckpiece designed by Nuala Jamison and Caroline Broadhead

A C&N Buttons and Jewellery Production neckpiece designed by Nuala Jamison and Caroline Broadhead, round black acrylic disc beads with clear edges, threaded and with metal clasp, and six other coloured acrylic necklaces similar, a silver and perspex brooch, a Monies acacia wood and bone necklace by Gerda Lynggard, a collection of Bombolulu wood and cow bone jewellery, and a collection of modern and traditional jewellery including, Zenzulu, Adolfo Dominguez, a leather overnight bag and an English leather case, various marks, 55cm. long, (a lot)

Literature

Crafts Council Collection Online, J221 for a comparable neckpiece dated to 1989.

Exhibited

What is Jewellery;, Crafts Council, 1994. (C&N necklace)

Catalogue notes

Since 1968 artist/craftsmen have attempted to tackle poverty by creating a handcraft workshop in Bombolulu, a suburb of the Kenyan city of Mombassa. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Mary Maguire, a jewellery design student at the Royal College of Art, organised a cooperative venture with the workshops to produce bone jewellery to appeal to western markets. Several pieces in this lot were purchased directly in 1994-1995.