Jewellery/Accessories: SP0005

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Date

1906

Dimensions

Height: 4.4cm
Width: 2.9cm
Depth: 2.3cm

Other materials

Hollow silver

Inscription/signature

Marks: "C & N" / anchor / lion / date mark "g" in shield (verso), lion / date mark "g" in shield (recto) ["Double-faced bust / of Shakespeare / Silver Birmingham" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983

Other number

Gift 906

Literature

Ashton (with the help of Gertrud Seidmann), "The M H Spielmann Collection of Shakespeare Portraits." c.1982. Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.5

A small bust of Shakespeare with an identical face front and back, the two busts stamped and soldered together.