Metalwork by Jessie Marion King
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 24 silver and enamel items designed by Jessie Marion King (1875–1949) which date from between 1905 and 1914. This collection includes six pendant necklaces, six waist buckles, a cloak clasp and chain, and ten items from the toilet set she designed, including a hand mirror, hairbrush, clothes brush, glove stretchers, buttonhook, trinket or ring box, shallow trays and dishes. These were manufactured for Liberty of London’s Cymric range by WH Haseler of Birmingham. Her designs for this range tend to feature stylized flying birds and freely drawn looped flowers with three to six petals or garlands of small flowers with three or four petals, buds and leaves. The enamelling is predominantly in blue and green, but purple, white and orange are occasionally used. The pendant necklaces often comprise a number of separately enamelled pieces threaded together on the chain and include a droplet of semi-precious stone. The collection also holds a silver badge or brooch of The Glasgow School of Art crest, designed by King. The brooch was made by Peter Wylie Davidson who was technical instructor in metalwork at The Glasgow School of Art from between 1897 and 1935.
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