An Arts & Crafts silver enamel and turquoise brooch attributed to C.R.Ashbee for The Guild of...

An Arts & Crafts silver enamel and turquoise brooch attributed to C.R.Ashbee for The Guild of Handicraft, c1900, the four petal flower decorated with translucent blue enamel set with a central turquoise cabochon matrix in beaded border, suspending three lines of silver chain with turquoise finials, silver tendril decoration, 7.2cm high

Literature: For a similar pendant see ARWAS, V., Art Nouveau in Britain: From Mackintosh to Liberty, The Birth of a Style, p.147

For a similar brooch, see The Studio, Issue 18 (1899): 124

Accompanied by original purchase receipt from Tadema Gallery dated 10th December 1997.