LARGE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE JEWELS, (22)

LARGE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE JEWELS, 18TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY 1st: Blue and white paste lozenge brooch, and paste-set buckle brooch, 18th century, 2nd: Silver and paste flower brooch, 18th century, 3rd: Georgian garnet-set spray brooch and earrings, 4th: Berlin ironwork brooch and necklace, early 19th century, 5th: Seed pearl and enamel cameo brooch, dated 1877, 6th: Three paste and gem-set comet brooches, 19th century, 7th: Victorian seed pearl star brooch and silver and paste star brooch, 8th: Pearl necklace with glazed compartment clasp, 19th century, 9th: Seed pearl grape vine brooch, 19th century, 10th: Antique garnet and seed pearl flower brooch, 11th: Antique chrysoberyl-set earrings, 12th: Neo-Renaissance diamond and enamel earrings, 13th: Antique 'Flemish' silver and gold brooch with rose-cut diamond accents, 14th: Two antique paste-set brooches, 15th: Blue and white paste-set oblong brooch, early 20th century, lengths: brooches 2.3-7.5cm, earrings 1.2-2.4cm, necklaces 41.5-49.0cm (22) Footnotes: Provenance Hilary Clarke (1925-2015), Director of Cameo Corner, Bloomsbury Descent to the current owner The three comet brooches are likely to have been created in anticipation of the reappearance of Halley's comet in the 1835-1836. Hilary Clarke, known as 'Jill' to her friends, was one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1951. In her early career she worked as a designer for Edward Barnard & Sons of Hatton Garden (1950-1951) and S Root & Co Ltd (1951-1954) before joining Cameo Corner, Bloomsbury as assistant manager in 1954. When Clarke was made a director in 1962 she instigated a series of annual modern jewellery exhibitions which soon became a regular fixture in the trade calendar until the shop eventually closed in 1978. In 2001, in recognition of her contribution in promoting the work of British studio jewellers from the early Sixties until the mid-Eighties, she was awarded The Centennial Medal by the Society of Designer Craftsmen. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com