Arts and Crafts - 19th June 2019
Lot 462
A fine silver and emerald paste cross pendant necklace by Arthur and Georgie Gaskin
Estimate £2,500 - £3,000
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Description
A fine silver and emerald paste cross pendant necklace by Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, the scrolling wirework body set with nine green paste stones, with a further green paste drop, in modern fitted case unsigned, 7.5cm. drop.
Exhibited
Arts and Crafts Jewellery The Work of Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, Court Barn Museum, 2014.
Catalogue notes
A similar cruciform pendant by the Gaskins, made for Laurence Hodson about 1904, was exhibited at the Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts exhibition at the V&A Museum in 1952 and is now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery collection.
Literature
The Studio Volume 61, 1914 page 296.
Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, City Museum & Art Gallery Birmingham/FAS London, page 90 for a similar pendant necklace of wirework and green paste stones.