Queen Elizabeth I
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| Brosch av Queen Elizabeth I, även kallad Queen Bess. Denna brosch har vår kära släkting som är guldsmed i London gjort tillsammans med ett team av hantverkare. Broschen är gjord i gult guld, vitt guld, safirer, vita diamanter och svarta diamanter |
Denna brosch har vår kära släkting som är guldsmed i London gjort tillsammans med sitt team. I julas var vi och hälsade på honom och Theo på Theo Fennells flagship store på 169 Fulham Road. Då jobbade han för fullt med denna brosch, som nu är färdig! Vilket hantverk!
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"So we have come to the end of the Queen Elizabeth I brooch. What a time we have had making good Queen Bess! She will be on display at Masterpiece London from the 30th June to the 5th July.
Some of the greatest craftsmen in the world have come together to realise an idea I had to revise the old concept of the head and shoulders portrait brooch. I wanted to use a skull but yet have the person recognisable, and the Virgin Queen seemed perfect to such a quintessentially Elizabethan idea.
The studio prepared the technical drawings and used a ridiculously talented stone cutter for the hair and shoulders. Staffan (vår släkting) in our workshop, a man of extraordinary modesty and brilliance, started to hand craft the mount (her ruff, torso and details) in gold. Into this Murray our setter – equally inspired – began to set the sapphire and diamonds into her tunic. After the minute black diamonds had been set into the gold mounts, they were also set into her hair, carved from citrine. A brooch fitting was added and shanks then hallmarked. She was then ready for deep engraving, done by quite the best there is. Finally she was burnished and polished.
This piece is a complete one-off and has taken the combined skills of 7 great craftsmen. It comes with its signed design and a certificate in a hand made box.
This is how jewellery should be and its owner should have something to last forever…"
"So we have come to the end of the Queen Elizabeth I brooch. What a time we have had making good Queen Bess! She will be on display at Masterpiece London from the 30th June to the 5th July.
Some of the greatest craftsmen in the world have come together to realise an idea I had to revise the old concept of the head and shoulders portrait brooch. I wanted to use a skull but yet have the person recognisable, and the Virgin Queen seemed perfect to such a quintessentially Elizabethan idea.
The studio prepared the technical drawings and used a ridiculously talented stone cutter for the hair and shoulders. Staffan (vår släkting) in our workshop, a man of extraordinary modesty and brilliance, started to hand craft the mount (her ruff, torso and details) in gold. Into this Murray our setter – equally inspired – began to set the sapphire and diamonds into her tunic. After the minute black diamonds had been set into the gold mounts, they were also set into her hair, carved from citrine. A brooch fitting was added and shanks then hallmarked. She was then ready for deep engraving, done by quite the best there is. Finally she was burnished and polished.
This piece is a complete one-off and has taken the combined skills of 7 great craftsmen. It comes with its signed design and a certificate in a hand made box.
This is how jewellery should be and its owner should have something to last forever…"
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