Pendant designed by Phoebe Traquair

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This gold and enamel pendant is decorated with a sleeping cupid. It was designed by Phoebe Traquair in 1905.

Pendant of gold and enamel decorated with a sleeping cupid and an enamelled drop: Scottish, Phoebe Traquair, 1905

Phoebe Traquair, 1852-1936, worked as an artist in several materials. Traquair believed art and morality could be linked, and expressed this creatively in book illumination, jewellery and enamels, embroidery and painting.

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• Online ID: 000-000-099-841-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: Innovators and Innovations (multimedia essay)
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1986.122
• Date: 1905
  
• Material: Gold and enamel. Inscription: Sleeping cupid
  Jewellery
  Pendant
  
• Dimensions: 35 mm L
  
• What: Jewellery
  Pendant
  
• Subject: Pendants and lockets
  
• Who: Phoebe Traquair, Scotland (jewellery designer)
  
• Where: SCOTLAND
  
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• References:
  • Cumming, Elizabeth. Phoebe Anna Traquair. Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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