Jewellery/Accessories: SP0018

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 3cm
Width: 1.9cm
Depth: 0.8cm

Other materials

Enamelled

Inscription/signature

"STRATFORD ON AVON" (at bottom) ["'Stratford on Avon' / pendant" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.18

A small glazed pendant showing a bust of Shakespeare above two shields, one showing his birthplace and one his heraldry.