Arts & Crafts Gold, Aquamarine, and Enamel Pendant, Frank Gardner Hale

Description:

Arts & Crafts Gold, Aquamarine, and Enamel Pendant, Frank Gardner Hale, bezel-set with a cushion-cut aquamarine within a scrolling mount further set with circular-cut aquamarines and pearls, black enamel accents, and suspended from delicate chain, lg. 2, chain lg. 17 1/2 in., signed, (losses).

Note: A similar pendant is depicted among the archival materials, Lot 212. Accompanied by a photograph from a Washington, D.C., studio showing the pendant intact, and likely from an exhibition. Hale exhibited annually in Washington prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Lacking drops. Tests for 18kt.


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