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Click here to subscribeOpal Five Stone Elongated Statement Ring, five jelly opals, the largest, at the centre being an oval cut cabochon of 1.5cts, set across the finger, with two graduating round cut cabochons to either side, along the finger, bringing the total of the shimmering jelly opals to 3.75cts, the whole set in 14ct gold vermeil and silver, creating a dramatic ring; size R
Timo Sarpaneva (Finnish 1926-2006) for Iittala "Claritas" Vase Black, opal and clear cased glass with four individually produced internal bubbles, bearing Iittala label and signed Timo Sarpaneva Iittala 2007 (or 2001). 20cm high The William "Bill" Davies Collection of Scandinavian Glass. Bill Davies led a very successful career as an architect, primarily working in his native Wales, with his most celebrated project being the Plas Menai complex situated on the Menai Strait which serves as the National Watersports Centre for Wales and has been awarded Grade II and II* status - it was described as 'arguably the most admired and influential building completed in Wales in the last quarter of the twentieth century’ by Professor Richard Weston*. Bill was also commissioned for architectural work by Cardiff University and indeed served as a Lecturer in Design at the institution, playing a major part in developing the course into one of the highest rated in the United Kingdom.His major inspirations were the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the leading Finnish designer Alvar Aalto: from this stemmed Bill's enthusiasm for all aspects of mid-century design with the glass of Scandinavia becoming his particular passion, or rather, obsession. Invariably accompanied by his beloved late wife Maureen, Bill attended glass fairs around the UK and made buying trips to Scandinavia, amassing his extensive collection with a keen eye and canny judgement that pre-empted market trends by decades with his focus on Vicke Lindstrand, Oiva Toikka, Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva and many other notable designers.Wilson55 Auctioneers & Valuers are honoured to have been instructed to bring the William "Bill" Davies Collection of Scandinavian Glass to auction as part of our 4th December Modern Art & Design sale and we hope that you enjoy browsing this fantastic collection.*Credit: Twentieth Century Society Small 6mm surface scratch to clear section towards base, some very minor fritting to parts of rim, three tiny red specks to one side, no other issues to note.
A collection of loose gemstones including two oval cut peridot (totalling approximately 2.1ct), nineteen peridot cabochons (totalling approximately 13ct), eight oval cut garnets (totalling 7.6ct), eight garnet cabochons (totalling 5ct), two tanzanite cabochons (totalling approximately 5.1ct), an oval tanzanite cabochon (approximately 5.5ct), twenty opal cabochons (totalling approximately 12.3ct), two garnet cabochons (totalling approximately 5.6ct), five emeralds (totalling approximately 0.45ct), five grey moonstones (totalling approximately 2ct) and a topaz (approximately 4.5ct)
Arthur (1862-1928) and Georgie (1866-1934) Gaskin. An Arts & Crafts opal and enamel bracelet, attributed to Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, with square panels with a central cabochon opal in bezel setting to enamel ground, within foliate and bead surround, alternating with rectangular panels with twisted wire decoration and blue and green enamel, to box clasp, unmarked, width 1.2cm, length 20cmProvenance: a private London collection
A group of jewellery, including: a hardstone cameo stick pin, the sardonyx cameo depicting Luna; a 'scarab' beetle stick pin mounted with a tortoise leaf beetle (polychalca punctatissima); an onyx and seed pearl crescent brooch; a gold mounted amethyst, pearl ad diamond brooch; a 9ct gold hunting horn and horseshoe brooch; a 9ct gold opal brooch (one opal lacking), Chester hallmarks, 1900; a 15ct gold aquamarine and seed pearl brooch; a gold mounted seed pearl horseshoe brooch; a 9ct gold diamond set brooch; a silver Scottish agate set dirk brooch, length 9.3cm; an Austro-Hungarian paste bracelet; two half pearl memorial brooches, one engraved verso Ann Norris Obt 11 March 1812 Ae 85; an opal doublet ring; a silver carnelian padlock clasp with woven hair to glazed panel verso; etc. (a lot)
A small group of Arts & Crafts and later jewellery, comprising: an Arts & Crafts agate cabochon and wirework pendant; an opal bar brooch, width 4.6cm; a buckle half with applied heart and wire knot decoration; a silver curb link chain with bar and knot spacers; a metal guard chain with glass bead spacers, stamped platinon; a Scottish pewter pendant, stamped Ceard Made in Scotland, grasses; and a buckle (8)Provenance: a private London collection
An Arts & Crafts silver opal and moonstone pendant, the pear shaped pendant with a collet set cabochon opal and moonstone, to applied foliate, pellet and scroll decoration, with fluted V bale, length 7cm Provenance: a private London collectionCondition Report: Some surface wear/scratches, notable area of abrasion to reverse. Opal light blue body colour, with varying play-of-colour, small areas of surface reaching inclusions/discolouration. Opal measures approximately 12 x 11mm (cannot measure depth due to mount limitations).Moonstone with light blue adularesence. Moonstone measures approximately 6mm (cannot measure depth due to mount limitations).
Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware (1883-1960). An Arts & Crafts silver blister pearl and opal necklace, with a bezel set blister pearl within rectangular wire and floral frame with oval cabochon boulder opals, suspending a boulder opal bead drop in foliate setting, suspended on a trace link chain with twisted wire T bar fitting, maker's mark ETWW, pendant length 5cm, chain length 45cmProvenance: a private London collectionEdmund Thomas Wyatt Ware was a student at the Royal Academy Schools in London between 1908 and 1913 and taught jewellery and goldsmithing at the Central School of Arts from 1905 to 1940. In 1911 he received a silver medal from the RA along with a prize of £5.He exhibited his work in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1910) and the Royal Academy Exhibition (1913, 1914, 1934, 1935 and 1940), and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts 53rd Annual Exhibition (1935).An engagement ring designed in 1912 by Ware for his future wife, Theodora Margaret Lancaster, is now held in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections.During the First World War he served as a Private in the Marine Army Medical Corps and Royal Army Service Corps, and as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers.Elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1916, he moved to sculpting as a profession following the Second World War. From 1948 to 1953 he became the Vice President of the society.
A group of ten assorted rings, comprising: a turquoise and diamond cluster ring, (one turquoise lacking), ring size S; a diamond cluster ring, stamped 18ct, ring size R; a jadeite jade and diamond ring, stamped 18k750, ring size L; an 18ct gold ruby and diamond ring, Birmingham hallmarks, 1924, ring size N½; an 18ct white gold emerald and diamond half hoop ring by Charles Green & Sons, (two emeralds lacking), stamped 18ct, ring size R; a platinum wedding ring by Charles Green & Sons with applied decoration, stamped PLAT, ring size Q½; two white gold diamond set half hoop rings, ring size P½ and Q; an amethyst and opal five stone ring, stamped 9k, ring size Q; and a malachite ring, stamped 9ct, ring size P (10) Please note that the jadeite jade has not been tested for natural colour originCondition Report: Platinum ring approximate weight 4.93 grams. Malachite ring and amethyst and opal ring approximate gross weight 7.73 grams. Remaining rings approximate gross weight 29.96 grams.
Mary Thew (1876-1953). An Arts & Crafts Scottish silver opal, emerald and blue agate clip brooch, attributed to Mary Thew, of triangular form with bezel set cabochon opals and blue agates, and mixed cut emeralds, within wirework, bead and foliate surround, to clip, unmarked, length 5.5cm Provenance: a private London collection Mary Thew, born in Hillhead, Glasgow in 1876 was a Scottish arts and crafts jeweller. She spent a short amount of time studying at Glasgow School of Arts, before marrying her husband James Mursell Thew in 1903. James Thew was an engineer who enjoyed silversmithing, making pieces for his wife. Through this, Mary fostered her own interest in the craft, making her own designs. After only a few years of marriage, however, James died. Left with a young son to care for, Mary turned her hobby into a professional career. She took a short course of four lessons with renowned Arts and Crafts Jewellery Rhoda Wager. From 1911 Thew was a member of the Glasgow School of Lady Artists, and won the Society's Lauder Award for a case of jewellery in 1925. Thew also became a member of the "Green Gate Close Coterie" having befriended Jessie M. King and her husband E. A. Taylor whilst attending the Glasgow School of Art together. The coterie was a group of artists and artisans who came to live year round or for part of the year in Kircudbright, where King and Taylor had settled after returning from Paris. Records from a 1939 newspaper article by Muirhead Moffat show that she produced a large breadth of objects in her career, from brooches and necklaces to butter-forks and crosses. Her works are more often unsigned than not, but a select amount bears her maker's signature of a dotted T. Travelling to Fiji, and beyond to Australia in 1913, her unique style of free-flowing silver wire with trails and beads is inspired by the foreign jewellery she encountered on her travels. A brooch by Thew in this style is held in the Victoria & Albert museum collections. Literature cf. The Glasgow Style 1890-1920, Glasgow Museums Department of Decorative Art, p. 49-50 Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, cat. no. 571 Jewelry & metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, Elyse Zorn Karlin, p.142-143 The Glasgow Style, Gerald & Celia Larner, pl.193 & 194 Condition Report: Some surface wear and scratches, areas of discolouration to foliate details and to reverse. Clip to reverse slightly bent. Gemstones with small areas of abrasion to surface, opals with small surface reaching inclusions, gems in foil-back settings.
Three Arts & Crafts brooches, comprising: a silver bar brooch in the form of oak leaves and berries with collet set pear cabochon chrysoprase terminals, length 9cm; a tapering lapis lazuli and opal set brooch with scroll wire decoration, length 9cm; and a an openwork opal and moonstone set bar brooch, length 12cm (3)Provenance: a private London collection
A group of silver jewellery, comprising: an Arts & Crafts silver opal brooch, length 7.5cm; a hollow silver floral form clasp part, stamped 'patented June 25 1901'; a silver enamel dragonfly brooch by Murrle Bennett & Co; a silver and enamel openwork brooch, stamped 800, length 9.5cm; an elongated oval blister pearl and moonstone brooch, with double pin, length 6.7cm; a three stone moonstone bar brooch with applied bead decoration, length 6.3cm; a single stone cabochon ring; a three stone amethyst cabochon brooch; and a silver freshwater baroque pearl bracelet, length 18cm (a lot) Provenance: a private London collection Please note that the pearls have not been tested for natural originCondition Report: All pieces have general surface wear and discolouration, all clasps and pins are in working order, opals to one brooch with minor chips to edge, other gems with general surface abrasion, larger amethyst to one brooch slightly loose to setting, but still secure/wearable.
Edward Spencer (1873-1938) for the Artificers' Guild. A silver fire opal necklace and ring, the necklace with an oval openwork panel with collet set cabochon fire opals to a foliate and floral ground, with similar lozenge shaped surmount, to chain with alternating single and trefoil collet set cabochon fire opals with pellet detail, joined by twisted wire barrel links, to fire opal set box clasp, circa 1905, drop length 5.1cm, necklace length 43cm; together with a matching ring, ring size M (2) Provenance: a private London collection The archives of the Artificers' Guild are held in the Goldsmith's Library, where an original design for this necklace can be found (AC/1/1/1/10/21), signed Edward Spencer. The design differs very slightly from the present example in the materials being gold, chrysoprase and green opal.Condition Report: General surface wear and discolouration. Clasp to necklace with some scratches, but in working order. Some fire opals with areas of surface abrasion, some slightly opaque, small chip to one stone in the ring, but not noticeable without magnification. Gross weight approximately 24.7 grams.
An opal bead necklace and earrings, and an opal brooch, the early 20th century necklace with a row of graduated spherical opal beads, 4-10mm diameter, with rock crystal and glass rondelle spacer beads, length 59.5cm; a pair of matching earrings with screw fittings; and a 9ct gold opal bar brooch, Birmingham hallmarks, 1986 (3)
Andrew Grima. An 18ct gold boulder opal and diamond pendant, the freeform boulder opal in claw setting with brilliant cut diamond set bale, London hallmarks, 1970, maker's mark, signed GRIMA, length 5.5cmCondition Report: Some surface wear/scratches to mount, in wearable condition. Diamond appears bright and lively. Boulder opal with notable surface reaching inclusions and small chips to the sides, small surface reaching inclusions to the reverse, and a small surface reaching fracture to the front of the stone which isn't noticeable with the unaided eye.
An opal and diamond brooch/pendant, possibly John Donald, with an oval cabochon opal, approximately 19.0 x 16.5mm, to oval textured surround with scattered brilliant cut diamonds, and molten edge, with brooch pin and pendant hook, dimensions 5.6 x 4.7cm, circa 1970Condition Report: Gross weight 36.14 grams.
Harlequin suite of opal set gold jewellery to include a 9ct gold bracelet, 10.5g, a 9ct gold cluster ring, size Q, 6.2g, a 9ct gold opal and sapphire ring, size R, 2.9g, 9ct gold pendant on chain, 2.7g, pair of 9ct gold opal and diamond earrings, 2.3g, and a pair of 9ct gold opal ear studs, 1.8g, 26.4g gross, also a gold plated pendant on chain.
An 18ct yellow gold opal and diamond set oval ring, size Q, approx 7.3g, the ring head 17.8 x 14.8mm.Condition Report: The opal has surface scratches but is free from any major damage, claw tips are all present, diamonds are all present and well matched only showing inclusions through a loupe, general surface wear to the ring.
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