Gold, Peking Glass and Garnet Pendant, Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, circa 1900

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Composed of a carved Peking glass mango mounted in gold as a pendant, surmounted by a stylized chrysanthemum set with hessonite garnets, signed C.& A.G. With original gilt-embossed fitted leather case signed C.& A. Giuliano.

Provenance

Sotheby's London, May 21, 1987, lot 205.

Exhibited

Artists' Jewellery, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, Wartski, London, March 1989, no. 86, and Asprey, New York, October 1989, no. 34.

Catalogue Note

After the death of their father in 1895, Carlo and Arthur Giuliano continued to produce jewels that incorporated fragments of antique or found objects. The present pendant illustrates an interest in Chinese art that was not usually associated with the firm, but was very much in step with the 'Aesthetic Movement' of the time. Another similar pendant, made from a Chinese sleeve weight of carved blue chalcedony, is illustrated by Geoffrey C. Munn, Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewelers of the 19th Century, pl. 36.