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A gold, enamel, demantoid garnet and gem-set necklace, by Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, late 19th century
20 September 2017, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £22,500 inc. premium
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A gold, enamel, demantoid garnet and gem-set necklace, by Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, late 19th century
The highly articulated bib composed of swags of gold chain set with vari-cut demantoid garnets and diverse motifs in blue and white enamel, with a fringe of pearl drops at the front, the central pendant drop with additional circular-cut ruby decoration, maker's mark C&AG, length 37.8cm
Footnotes
Provenance
Sir Edward Poynter (1836-1919)
Sir Hugh Poynter (1882-1968)
Shirley Linda Poynter
Direct descent to the current owner
Sir Edward Poynter was Director of the National Gallery and President of the Royal Academy in London at the turn of the 20th century.
His training as an artist included working in the studio of Frederic, Lord Leighton in Rome, with whom he formed a close friendship, and studying at Gleyre's atelier in Paris where his fellow students included American painter James McNeill Whistler and the cartoonist and writer George du Maurier, who immortalised their bohemian student years in the popular Victorian novel Trilby.
In 1866, Poynter married the "tyrannously beautiful" Agnes MacDonald, daughter of a Methodist preacher whose three sisters also made advantageous matches. Georgiana married Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Alice married designer and modeller John Lockwood Kipling (their son was novelist Rudyard Kipling) and Louisa married wealthy iron-founder Alfred Baldwin (their son, Stanley, would become British Prime Minister).
Poynter enjoyed great success with his historical paintings in which his fanciful renderings of costume and archaeology evoked a sense of the ancient world even if it was not a technically accurate one. He was a great patron of revivalist jeweller, Giuliano, from whom Poynter, as well as members of his extended artistic family, regularly commissioned jewels. For Poynter's painting of Helen of Troy in 1887, he designed, and Giuliano made, the jewels 'Helen' wears.
This necklace was inherited by Poynter's younger son, Sir Hugh Poynter, who gave it to his Australian step-daughter Shirley Poynter.