£3,024
Auction: 25 January 2023 at 10:00 GMT
white metal and enamel, incised with a stylised 'R' to reverse
Note: Frances Macdonald and her sister Margaret were skilled in metalware, jewellery and enamelling however few executed pieces of jewellery are known. A group of jewellery, attributed to McNair and engraved to the reverse with the letter R, as in the present lot, was sold at Christie’s, London, in 1992.
For similar examples of jewellery in this group, with this marking, see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession Numbers 2021.7.6 and 2021.7.5