BESSIE JAMIESON: JEWELRY
NOVEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 20, 2014
BESSIE JAMIESON: JEWELRY will consist of hand-made necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pins of 22-karat gold with precious and semi-precious gemstones, including antique rose-cut diamonds. JAMIESON draws on ancient, classical, Byzantine, and medieval jewelry to inspire her own designs. Her jewelry is contemporary, yet rooted in the past.
BESSIE JAMIESON began her career in jewelry design as an apprentice to Robert Kulicke at the Kulicke-Stark Academy in New York. JAMIESON is the former owner and director of the Jewelry Arts Institute in New York (a descendant of the Kulicke-Stark Academy), where she taught traditional techniques of classical jewelry. Her pieces have been exhibited annually at Davis & Langdale Company since 1980.
JAMIESON was featured in a film demonstrating the art of granulation, shown at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in conjunction with the exhibition The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (2004). JAMIESON has also given lectures to the staff of The Cloisters on classical jewelry making techniques.
Necklace
Faceted sapphire beads and pearls with chain sections and filigree clasp [19 inches]
KUJ-1203
Earrings
Repoussed rosettes with rose-cut diamonds [each 1/2 karat]
KUJ-1314
Earrings
Oval sapphire cabochons in twisted wire and granulated setting
KUJ-1262
Pendant
South Sea pearl with emerald beads
KUJ-1273
Pendant
Enamel in gold setting. The design is inspired by the Townley Brooch, Ottonian, c. 975-1025, on view at The British Museum, London.
KUJ-1272
Necklace
Emerald beads, hollow melon beads and gold spacers with granulated rosette clasp
[17 1/2 inches]
KUJ-1220
Ring
Sapphire with granule cluster, size 6 3/4
KUJ-1303
DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK, NY 10021
212-838-0333