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Gallery 2 ▪ Frank Gardner Hale

 

Pendant on chain, 18K gold, with lapis.  Nouveau-style thick continuous shield-shape gold wire frame forming small loop at bottom and two loops at top with small butterfly-shaped wirework between them.  Applied elongated leaves top and bottom and curving down the sides, centering a large horizontally mounted and very dimensional bezel-set oval deep blue cabochon lapis stone, with gold beads securing it to the frame.  Suspended from the bottom loop is a matching vertically mounted and dimensional bezel-set oval deep blue cabochon lapis stone drop, with gold beads adjacent to the small bale.  The pendant is mounted on a handwrought gold chain composed of links, bars, and wirework figure-eight loops, and is fastened to the top of the pendant in four places in an "M" shape.   Pendant:  2-1/2" H from top to bottom of drop and 1-1/4" W.  Chain:  16-1/2" L.  Marked:  F. G. HALE

 

 

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