Description:
Arts & Crafts Silver and Enamel Pendant, Attributed to Edgar Simpson, England, c. 1900, the pendant designed as a silver blossom against a polychrome enamel ground, reverse with counter enamel, and suspended from fancy link chain, lg. 2 1/2, 17 3/4 in., unmarked.
Note: Purchased at Borsdorf Fine Art, Darmstadt. A similarly enameled pendant by Simpson is pictured in Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, by Elyse Zorn Karlin, p. 92.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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