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Necklace - 1982
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Necklace
© Wedgwood Museum
Designed by Wendy Ramshaw this necklace consists of pale-blue jasper beads with a dark surface which have been turned in bands. These are interspersed with white circular beads for a striking contrast.
Designed by Wendy Ramshaw this necklace consists of pale-blue jasper beads with a dark surface which have been turned in bands. These are interspersed with white circular beads for a striking contrast.
- Type of object: Ornamental ware/jewellery and accessories
- Mark: JW & WR (on the gold clasp)
- Year first produced: 1982
- Body: Jasper
- Material: Ceramic, gold and gold plated metals
- Accession number: 11532
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Wendy Ramshaw
Designer
Wendy Ramshaw - Designer
Wendy Ramshaw was born in Sunderland in 1939, and is now resident and working in London. Best known for her jewellery designs which show a high degree of technological sophistication. Ramshaw trained at Newcastle-on-Tyne College of Art as an illustrator and industrial designer from 1956-60, with a year at Reading University studying for an art teacher’s diploma. Following this she earned a living designing and printing fabrics, drawing, illustrating, and teaching – during which time jewellery was a sideline. Gradually she turned her talent to the designing of jewellery, and in 1982 collaborated with the Wedgwood factory, utilising the traditional-ceramic bodies of jasper and black basalt, and long-standing historical factory methods, in order to produce a new concept in jewellery. An exhibition of her work featuring this collaboration took place at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in the early 1980s.
