Parure
Collingwood Ltd
Category
Jewellery
Date
1820 (circa)
Materials
Amethyst and gold.
Measurements
Necklace: 390mm (Length)
Place of origin
Conduit Street
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288777.1
Summary
Amethyst necklace, dating from around 1820. The necklace is designed as two rows of pear-shaped amethysts with a central row of round amethysts with floral cluster finials and quatrefoil clasp; fully enclosed gold back mount (shortened at the back). It suspends a pendant of Maltese Cross design (288777.2).
Provenance
Necklace, part of an amethyst parure by Collingwood & Co., given to Selina Crewe (d. 1838) around 1822; thence by descent and bequeathed by her daughter, Georgiana Jane Henrietta Eliza Lovell, Lady Crewe (1824-1910) whose will described ‘the set of amethysts given to my Mother on her marriage’ and instructed it to be held as an heirloom to accompany the Calke Abbey estate and ‘worn by the wife of the owner of Calke Abbey’. Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Makers and roles
Collingwood Ltd, jeweller