Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A silver and malachite ‘Master’ brooch, design No. 22, by Georg Jensen, 1933-1944, designed as a foliate arc above four trefoils of circular malachite cabochons, each issuing a fancy-link chain leading to a polished malachite drop, maker’s mark ‘GJ’ in a rectangular punch, stamped ‘925 STERLING DENMARK’, numbered ‘22’, length 10.5cm. £1,500-£2,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Private Collection of Georg Jensen Jewellery.

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This brooch, design No. 323, was designed by Georg Jensen ca. 1905-6.


For Georg Jensen’s original sketch for this design and two further variations using onyx and amber, and labraborite, see:

Janet Drucker, Georg Jensen A Tradition of Splendid Silver, pub. Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2nd edition, 2001, page 74.

For an illustration of the original drawing for this brooch, in pencil, and ink on paper, ca. 1904-6, from Collection Georg Jensen Archive, Copenhagen, see: Georg Jensen Jewelery, Ed. David A. Taylor, pub. BGC Yale, 2005, page 27.



Anscombe, Gelfer-Jorgensen, Greenbaum and Soro: Georg Jensen Jewelery, pub. Yale University Press, 2005, page 27, shows additional photographs of this brooch.