BESSIE JAMIESON: RECENT JEWELRY
               OPENING DECEMBER 17, 2015
BESSIE JAMIESON: RECENT JEWELRY will consist of twenty-four hand-made rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants of 22-karat gold with precious and semi-precious gemstones, including antique rose-cut diamonds. Featured in the exhibition will be five pieces that have never before been shown. JAMIESON draws on ancient, classical, Byzantine, and medieval jewelry to inspire her own designs. Her jewelry is contemporary, yet rooted in the past and demonstrates her mastery of such techniques as repoussé and cloisonné.

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. 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.

Her pieces have been exhibited annually at Davis & Langdale Company since 1980.

Necklace
Faceted sapphire beads and pearls with chain sections and filigree clasp [19 inches]
KUJ-1203
Earrings
Rose-cut diamonds in granulated 22 karat gold dome setting
KUJ-1327
Blue beads connected by gold chain segments in necklace, clasped, and laid flat on white ground
​Drops for hoops
Planished drops with emerald beads 
KUJ-1329
Necklace
Double loop and loop 22 karat gold chain sections
with emerald beads, emerald in clasp
KUJ-1328
Gold earrings with small granulation decorations and diamonds in center of two identical earrings
Light blue bead earrings below gold interconnected circular loops
Light blue beads connected by gold chain segment necklace, clasped, and laid flat
DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK, NY 10021
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