Description
This pair of earrings features two of the nine women featured on the Gold Door in the Great Hall at Two Temple Place.
George Frampton (18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928) was the youngest of the artists and craftsmen taking leading roles at Two Temple Place. Perhaps best known for his Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, Frampton was born in London, but his career began in Paris where he worked as a stone carver on the Hotel de Ville. When he returned to London, he studied under William Silver Frith (another artist who worked on Two Temple Place) at the South London Technical School of Art, now City and Guilds of London Art School, between 1880 and 1881. He then went on to study at the Royal Academy whilst also working on several early commissions including the Henry Fawcett Memorial located in Victoria Embankment Gardens very close to Two Temple Place.
In 1893 he took up a teaching position at the Slade School of Art and it was during this period that he created the nine decorative panels for the central door to William Waldorf Astor’s office at 2 Temple Place. Each depicts in low relief the nine heroines of Arthurian legend placed within a decorative arched enclosure which also contains certain props that help to identify each woman. Once the decoration for the door was installed, Frampton exhibited versions of the panels at the Royal Academy with the title ‘Seven heroines out of “Mort d’Arthur” – pane for a door’. In the following few years, he sold several of the reliefs as standalone works of art.
Part of our exclusive Two Temple Place range, these earrings were designed and created in collaboration with Amber Joy Studio.
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