Studio: international art (89.1925)

MISS CARRIE FRANCIS'S JEWELLERY

PENDANT BY
CARRIE FRANCIS

MISS CARRIE FRANCIS'S
JEWELLERY a a * a

MISS CARRIE FRANCIS is a colonial
artist who has won a South Kensing-
ton diploma and silver medals, and has
exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
Royal Colonial Institute and the Paris
Salon. She has spent many years in
Europe in acquiring a sound and sympa-
thetic knowledge of the art of many
countries, and is herself one of the few
living masters of the highly skilled crafts
which she may be said to have made her
own. Her work displays originality not
only technically, in the wonderful minute-
ness and perseverance of its execution,
but aesthetically in its design—an even
rarer characteristic. 0 a a a
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The dainty silver triptych illustrated,,
with folding panels inlaid with dark blue
enamel, has as centrepiece a Botticelli
Madonna in Limoges of gorgeous iridescent
colouring, possessing that ethereal charm
pervading all this artist's portraiture. The
top is richly set with jewels and plaited
silver wire, all twisted separately and
soldered on, so that no detail is forgotten.
It is not, perhaps, generally known that
Limoges work is applied grain by grain
and then fused together in a crucible—both
of which processes must be most trying

PENDANT BY
CARRIE FRANCIS