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Lot 73A

GRIMA: VARI-COLOURED BEAD NECKLACE AND EARRING SUITE, CIRCA 1988
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11 December 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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GRIMA: VARI-COLOURED BEAD NECKLACE AND EARRING SUITE, CIRCA 1988

The textured rose, yellow, white and black beads in various metals, threaded on cable-linking, with bicoloured earrings en suite, signed Grima, necklace length 45.0cm, earring diameter 2.3cm (2)

Footnotes

See Grant, W., Andrew Grima: The Father of Modern Jewellery, Suffolk, ACC Art Books, 2020, p.239 for an illustration of an identical necklace described as, "Handmade beads in yellow gold, red gold, silver and oxidised silver" and the Grima Retrospective Exhibition catalogue, Goldsmiths Hall, 1991, ill.p.56, no.87, for a design drawing of this necklace, described as an alternative to the vari-coloured pearl necklaces that had become very popular with Grima clients and "increasingly rare and expensive".

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