CHILD & CHILD 1880-1915
Arts & Crafts Brooch designed by W.A.S. Benson
Silver, garnet, crystal, enamel & pearl
Diameter: 5.6cm
British. Circa 1895
Fitted case
Designed by W.A.S. Benson for his sister-in-law Silvia Fogg Eliot, the daughter of the painter Alfred Hunt, a close friend of Burne Jones, William Morris, John Ruskin & the Pre Raphaelite circle
Literature: cf. Pre-Raphaelite to Arts & Crafts Jewellery
Charlotte Gere & Geoffrey C. Munn, 1996, page 148