Gilded silver, gold, enamel, demantoid garnets

H  5.00cm (1.97 in)  |  W  6.00cm (2.36 in)

Original fitted case, the silk marked: 'Jewellers, 35 Alfred Place West, Child & Child, Queen's Gate, Gold and Silversmiths'
The wings finely engraved with veins & decorated with shaded blue enamel the body set with demantoid garnets

Literature
Illustrated in our book:
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2021, p. 61
cf. Charlotte Gere & Geoffrey C. Munn, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts & Crafts Jewellery, 1996, p. 148
Helen Ritchie Designers & Jewellery 1850-1940, Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2018, pp. 130-31 biography

Ref No   4545

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