Arts & Crafts Pendant with Turquoise and Pearls in Gold, Murrle, Bennett & Co, London, c. 1905

Modern School

Arts & Crafts Pendant with Turquoise and Pearls in Gold, Murrle, Bennett & Co, London, c. 1905

€ 2,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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"Jewels by Artists of the Modern School" was the title given by the London firm Murrle, Bennett & Co at the beginning of the 20th century to the advertisements promoting their innovative Art Nouveau designs. Organic shapes made of gold or silver set large panels of turquoise or opal, usually with shimmering pearls added. The German Ernst Mürrle from Pforzheim and the Englishman J.B.Bennett founded their company for modern jewellery in London in 1891. Initially they bought the pieces of jewellery sold to them from the Pforzheim manufactories, but later they also had their own designs produced in Pforzheim and England. They were very successful and obviously hit the nerve of the times: Murrle & Bennett's jewellery was sold in London's Liberty's department store, for example, which had a style-defining effect on the spread of Art Nouveau in England. However, the success did not last long: as early as 1914, with the beginning of the war, trade connections to Germany broke off and Mürrle had to leave the company. To this day, the company's pieces of jewellery are collected and sought after. This necklace is a particularly beautiful example of the artistic jewellery that the company sold at the height of its success. A large, flat turquoise cabochon is set in gold. A Mississippi pearl swings below. The shapes are organic, elegant and completely non-representational: the break from the usual late Victorian jewellery in Great Britain could not be greater. The design is much closer to German Art Nouveau designs, such as those created by Theodor Fahrner. The pendant is marked on the back with the company logo. We have added the chain. The pendant has survived undamaged in the antique case from a Hamburg jeweler.

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€ 2,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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