Large Sterling silver Studio Else sales & Paul Hughes brooch/pendant Brutalist

Large sterling silver brooch from Studio Else & Paul, brutalist style.

Else and Paul Hughes were part of the Studio silver movement in Norway in the early sixties.

The Hughes couple worked almost entirely in a tecnique of casting called 'à cire perdue' sales or the 'lost-wax-method'.
The piece of jewelry is first modelled in wax. Around this model is cast a mould of plaster. The mould is then heated so that the wax melts and comes out. Liquid silver is poured into the mould while it is rotating. Finally the jewelry is given a manual after-treatment. It is a solid piece of silver, weighing 23 grams.

It can be worn as a brooch or pendant.