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Mounted with cabochon almandine garnet.  Projecting from the bases six fleur de lys, clusters of stones between, alternately three or four pearls around a ruby and four sapphires around a diamond, all set on a circular base.  On the back a hinged circular cover enamelled IP.  Hinged ring with suspension ring for chain when worn as a pendant.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Hardman, John","id":"A10573"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":"possibly"},{"name":{"text":"Powell, John Hardman","id":"A8478"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":"possibly"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"gold","id":"AAT11021"},{"text":"enamel","id":"AAT14910"},{"text":"garnet","id":"x42401"},{"text":"sapphire","id":"AAT11083"},{"text":"ruby","id":"AAT11082"},{"text":"diamond","id":"AAT11084"},{"text":"pearl","id":"AAT11827"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"gold, enamel, almandine garnet, sapphires, rubies, diamonds and pearls","categories":[{"text":"Jewellery","id":"THES48930"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2006AA0336","2006AA0217","2006AC6366","2006AC6417","2017JU4176","2017JU4177"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"91","id":"THES49703"},"free":"","case":"22","shelf":"A","box":"3"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Brooch","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Birmingham","id":"x28748"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1862","earliest":"1862-01-01","latest":"1862-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Lent by Mrs Sarah Dixon","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'MY DEAREST GRANDMOTHER'S HAIR.  1862.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Engraved on the inside of the lid of the empty compartment on the back of the brooch"},{"content":"'I P'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Enamelled letters on the outside of the lid of the locket on the back of the jewel.  Interpreted as being the initials of Jane Pugin, widow of A. W. N. Pugin."}],"objectHistory":"Owned by A.W.N. Pugin's third wife, Jane Knill (1825-1909).  It may be the brooch she wears in a photograph taken in old age, which is illustrated in an essay by Jane Franklin,  great-great-grandaughter, on Jane Knill published on the website of the Pugin Society, (see references).\r\n\nWhen exhibited in <i>Birmingham Gold & Silver, 1773-1973</i> (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1973, no. C52), it was suggested that the brooch\n\n'may be connected with an entry dated 1862 (Hardman ledger 6, p. 269) \"April 26th  A Gold Brooch £12\". The purchaser was Pugin's eldest son, Edward.  The initials IP indicate that the owner was Jane Knill, Pugin's third wife, borne out  by the present ownership and family descent.  Elizabeth Knill, wife of John, died 8 January, 1862.  Compare this brooch with drawing C71 for the same shape but different boss'.\n\nIn short, the suggestion is that the brooch was a present from Pugin's son, Edward, to Jane Pugin, his step-mother.  The inscription states that it originally contained the hair of his grandmother who can be identified as his step-grandmother, Elizabeth, Jane's mother.  The family is definite that the brooch was owned by Jane Pugin. \n\nWhen exhibited in A. W. N. Pugin Master  of Gothic Revival at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, 1995-6, the catalogue entry (no. 134), dated the brooch as 1850 and as designed by A. W. N. Pugin, but it makes no reference to the inscription inside the locket.  The entry comments that Jane Pugin wears 'a similar brooch as a pendant round her neck' in a portrait of Jane by G. A. Freezor, painted in 1859.  The brooch is similar (which may be all that the catalogue intends), but its design is not the same and it appears to have a white centre and six white stones, presumably pearls, around its outer rim.  It is not the same as the brooch on loan.  The brooch in the painting was identified by Shirley Bury as likely to have been one supplied to Edward Pugin in 1852 after his father's death presumably as a gift to his step-mother (Shirley Bury, 'Jewellery', in <i>Pugin A Gothic Passion</i>, ed. Paul Atterbury &amp; Clive Wainwright, Yale University Press, New Haven and London,  in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1994, p. 169).\n\nOn the basis of the evidence available, it is  reasonable to think that the brooch was made in 1862, the date of the inscription, and that it was therefore not designed by A. W. N. Pugin.  The Birmingham catalogue suggests that it was 'possibly designed by John Hardman Powell and executed by John Hardman &amp; Co.'","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brooch. Gold, enamel, almandine garnet, sapphires, rubies, diamonds and pearls. 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