Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A silver and amethyst brooch, design No. 2, by Georg Jensen, 1904 - 1908, set with a circular amethyst cabochon with stylised openwork fans to either side, suspending an amethyst cabochon below and terminating in a polished silver drop, stamped ‘GEORG JENSEN’, maker’s mark ‘GJ’ and ‘GI’, stamped ‘826S’, numbered ‘2’, length 9cm.
£1,200-£1,500

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

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This pendant, design No. 2, was designed by Georg Jensen in 1904.


With the opening up of Japan to Europeans in 1854, the Japanese style of decoration and representation of nature was a great novelty in Europe during the late 1800s, and influenced nearly all forms of art - inspiring artists to work with simplified patterns and lines. This early brooch design by Jensen shows him using a clear-cut style which quite possibly includes inspiration from Japanese art. (See Thulstrup, page 25).


For a similar example of this very early design, see:
Janet Drucker: Georg Jensen A Tradition of Splendid Silver, pub. Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2nd edition, 2001, page 71.
Thomas C. Thulstrup: Georg Jensen: Silver & Design, pub. Thomas C. Thulstrup and G.E.C. Gads Forlag, Aktieseskabet af 1994, Copenhagen., 2004, page 25.