Vespers Crescent

A wreath brooch in 18-carat yellow gold, citrines bright at arm's length, quiet up close. Whoever made it favoured sculpted goldsmithing. The detail is built up bead by bead, a technique half-lost by the time this was made. It had spent two generations with a Yorkshire estate before it found its way to us, passed hand to hand and never once sold until now. You can tell it was worn, not kept — the highest thing we can say of a piece.