Arts & Crafts Amy Sandheim Pendant on Chain

Beautiful pendant of lapis which has been polished into a stone drop with a reticulated laurel and berry mount. Set off by a purple cabochon and abalone plaque. Length 8cm. Handmade silver chain. Amy Alice Sandheim was a prominent British Arts & Crafts and Art Deco jeweller in the 1920s and 1930s. She was the daughter of Amy Alice and Julius Wolfe Sandheim. Julius came from a family of watchmakers, and in 1902, at the age of just 19, he became a jewellery designer under his teacher, W. Augustus Steward, the chief instructor in gold and silversmithing at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where Steward also taught Henry George Murphy. Julius and his brother Adolph entered the mark of Sandheim Bros gold and silver workers in 1908. By 1915 the family had a shop at 130 Notting Hill Gate in West London. Here Amy developed her personal style of Arts and Crafts jewellery using silver castings set with semi-precious stones. She had a preference for moonstones, which she often foiled after the Georgian method of foiling pastes, to produce striking and colourful effects.