{"id":25891,"date":"2025-04-16T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25891\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:31:07","slug":"bracelet-by-scottish-designer-sells-for-almost-three-times-estimate-at-auction-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25891\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracelet by Scottish designer sells for almost three times estimate at auction \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A piece of semi-precious gemstone jewellery slated to sell for \u00a38,000 has sold at auction for more than three times its asking price to an unnamed collector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Woolley &amp; Wallis auctioneers sold a bracelet designed by the late Scottish jeweller Sibyl Dunlop (1889\u20131968).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was sold on Wednesday in the auctioneer\u2019s fine jewellery sale via an phone call by the collector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The bracelet, made in the 1930s, is made up of a number of different gems and enamel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jewellery specialist at Woolley &amp; Wallis, Marielle Whiting said: \u201cWe were thrilled to offer such a fine example of Sibyl Dunlop\u2019s exquisite jewellery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDunlop uses a variety of semi-precious stones to create the \u2018carpet of gems\u2019 style for which her pieces are best known, and this bracelet is a fine example of this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe result achieved in our fine jewellery auction reflects the appreciation of Dunlop\u2019s craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 1930s arts and crafts multi-gem and enamel bracelet in the carpet of gems design was formed from oval cabochon opals framed in black enamel, alternating with geometric bands of opal, amethyst and blue, green and yellow chalcedony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is mounted in silver and its reverse is engraved with a foliate design, alongside Sibyl Dunlop\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A piece of semi-precious gemstone jewellery slated to sell for \u00a38,000 has sold at auction for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[15750,15751,748,4884,2619,712,15752,16,15,15753],"class_list":{"0":"post-25891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-bracelet","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sale","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-sibyl-dunlop","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-woolley-and-wallis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114350017098648602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}