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Lot 106^AR,Ω

An enamel, opal, and demantoid garnet "Angel from the end of time" necklace,
Kevin Coates, 1990

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26 September 2018, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,625 inc. premium

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An enamel, opal, and demantoid garnet "Angel from the end of time" necklace, Kevin Coates, 1990

The pendant depicting the Seventh Angel of the Book of Revelations issuing a multi-coloured enamel rainbow arc, the drapery, wings, and windswept hair with textured detail, the torso and head set in carved opal, with demantoid garnet eyes, suspended from a necklace of winding drapery, signed Coates 90, inscribed REV X 1,5,6, pendant length 10.9cm

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Illustrated and described in "Kevin Coates, A Hidden Alchemy. Goldsmithing: Jewels and Table-Pieces", Stuttgart, 2008, No 187.

Kevin Coates is a British artist, goldsmith and musician. His jewellery and table pieces can be found in private and public collections worldwide, including collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Silver Trust for No. 10 Downing Street and the Goldsmiths' Company.

Coates has also held important independent exhibitions at, among others, the Museo Correr in Venice, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Kennedy Galleries in New York.

These jewels being offered represent some key themes present throughout Coates' body of work: Classical, Christianity, nature, and Sir Roy Strong's view that his works seem to belong in a world of hermetic mystery. Strong further suggests when gathered together, Coates' jewels resemble a late renaissance Wunderkabinett, or repository of objects, attempted to gather within a single compass a microcosm of God's creation.

Clearly influenced by the Art Nouveau and Surrealist movements, these jewels also illustrate the complexity of his work, outstanding technical ability and unashamed richness.

The importance of exhibiting and acquiring works by contemporary artist jewellers, for both private and public collections, is also stressed by Strong in his introduction to 'Kevin Coates: A Hidden Alchemy', (Stuttgart, 2008). From the second half of the 20th Century, 'artist jewellery' has gained significant momentum, whereby jewellers have focused a greater emphasis on aesthetic composition and meaning within a piece, rather than merely the carat weight of high value diamonds and coloured stones. Kevin Coates may be considered amongst other well-known British artist jewellers, including Andrew Grima, John Donald, Stuart Devlin and Shaun Leane.

Kevin Coates is a Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, a fellow of the Royal College of Art and has been appointed Associate Artist at the Wallace Collection in London.

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