Jewellery and Watches

A Danish silver brooch by Georg Jensen, a Danish silver collar necklace by Jacob Hull and an enamelled bracelet, the brooch of a kneeling deer, numbered ‘256’, designed by Arno Malinowski, with maker’s mark and hallmarked for London, 1961, together with a Danish silver rigid collar necklace by Jacob Hull, with facsimile signature and stamped ‘B & D’, (commissioned by Buch & Deichmann), with sprung hook clasp, and an enamelled bracelet composed of slightly concave rectangular panels, decorated in enamels, with pink roses and green foliage against a white ground, stamped ‘935S’, brooch length 4.5cm, collar inner diameter 11.5cm, bracelet length 19cm. £180-200

Arno Malinowski 1899-1976) was a successful silver designer, sculptor, ceramist, engraver and medalist, training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and School of Sculpture in Copenhagen from 1919-1922. He worked for Georg Jensen between 1936-1944 and again from 1949-1965, creating designs for jewellery and hollow ware. His designs often included stylised animals, the Kneeling Deer being one of his most popular which he designed in 1937.

Jacob Hull worked in Denmark, becoming well known in the early 1970s for his jewellery, mainly made in silver and silver-plate. He exhibited internationally and his jewellery was on sale in Illums Bolighus, the principal retail outlet for Danish design. All his items were handmade at Hull’s own workshop, but to meet the demand for some of the more popular pieces produced for Buch & Deichman, he employed an assistant. He insisted that all pieces leaving his workshop were signed. He was also a skilled sculptor, and his work was accepted at the annual Charlottenburg exhibitions. He died tragically in a house fire at his home in Djursland, Jutland in 1993.