DOUBLE-STRAND GOLD NECKLACE, 19TH CENTURY, WITH CLASP BY SAH OVED, CIRCA 1940

DOUBLE-STRAND GOLD NECKLACE, 19TH CENTURY, WITH CLASP BY SAH OVED, CIRCA 1940 Designed as two rows of woven gold snake-linking, with a screw clasp, unsigned, length 70.4cm Footnotes: Provenance Hilary Clarke (1925-2015), Director of Cameo Corner, Bloomsbury Descent to the current owner The clasp is the work of Sah Oved (1900-1983), wife of Mosheh Oved, founder and owner of Cameo Corner, who was a jeweller and specialised in creating such intricate mechanisms. Hilary Clarke, known as 'Jill' to her friends, was one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1951. In her early career she worked as a designer for Edward Barnard & Sons of Hatton Garden (1950-1951) and S Root & Co Ltd (1951-1954) before joining Cameo Corner, Bloomsbury as assistant manager in 1954. When Clarke was made a director in 1962 she instigated a series of annual modern jewellery exhibitions which soon became a regular fixture in the trade calendar until the shop eventually closed in 1978. In 2001, in recognition of her contribution in promoting the work of British studio jewellers from the early Sixties until the mid-Eighties, she was awarded The Centennial Medal by the Society of Designer Craftsmen. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com