Hardman jewel with a Pugin connection
This gothic revival gold and enamel 'artist's jewel' made by the Birmingham metalworkers Hardman and Co is very similar to one given by architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) to his third wife Jane Knill.
Pugin’s gift shared the same openwork design of a green vase of white fleur-de-lis although it had…