Lot Details
Lot 199
Attributed to Marsh Oxidized Steel, Cultured Pearl and Diamond Bombé Ring
The bombé form centrally set with one pearl ap. 7.9 mm., bypassed by applied round diamond-set channels ap. .20 ct., unsigned. Size 6 1/4.
Australian native George Taylor Marsh set sail to immigrate to California with his family in the early 1870s. On his way, he stopped in Japan, a nation and culture that would go on to define the Marsh & Company aesthetic. After several years in Japan, in 1876, Marsh joined his family in San Francisco and opened G.T. Marsh & Company: Japanese Art Repository, at 625 Market Street at the Palace Hotel. For the first forty or more years, Marsh & Company specialized in Japanese, then also Chinese, antiques, and art. It wasn't until the 1930's that the firm entered into jewelry making, often pairing traditionally Asian materials such as jade, coral and pearls with, most famously, oxidized steel. These iconic designs counterbalanced precious materials with traditional industrial material- steel that had been sandblasted and blackened in techniques normally used by metal and gunsmiths to avoid rusting. Often, Marsh & Co. jewelry is unsigned.
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Additional Notes & Condition Report
Some of oxidation worn off, minor evidence of rust.
Width 5/8 inch.
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