Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: a rectangular silver brooch, set with a carved rooster motif tablet, suspending a jasper drop with silver cap, the back of the tablet engraved with dates corresponding to the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac, completed with a locking pin stem and bail, signed and stamped Sterling (3.25 x 1.5 in.); a silver brooch, set with a carved frog, a carved script, and an oval amber, completed with a locking pin stem and bail, signed and stamped Sterling (3.75 x .75 in.); and a carved cicada hardstone brooch, set within a silver conforming surround, completed with a locking pin stem and bail, signed and stamped Sterling (2.5 x 1.25 in.).
3.335 total troy oz.
Amy Kahn Russell is a jewelry artist with a BFA from Tulane University whose designs incorporate minerals, pearls, artifacts, and fossils sourced worldwide, sometimes mined and cut to her specifications. She has completed postgraduate studies at Exeter College of Arts in England, LSU, and the University of Houston.
Good estate condition.