Jewellery/Accessories: SP0015

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Vaughton, P & Sons

Date

1905

Dimensions

Height: 3cm
Width: 1.9cm
Depth: 0.7cm

Other materials

Varnished silver pendant

Inscription/signature

"SHAKESPEARE" (to right); marks: "V & S" / anchor / lion / date mark "f" in a shield (verso) ["Stamping by Brookes & / Adams / (Through T.A. Vaughton)" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No. 15

Pendant showing bust of Shakespeare within a scroll frame.