After Peter Wylie Davidson - A 1970s Scottish silver pendant cast with three swallows in flight circling around a brilliant cut cairngorm and suspended from pendant loop, diameter 4.4cm, Edinburgh 1977, makers mark CA. The swallows in flight design is distinctive of Davidson, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles Renee Mackintosh who often commissioned his work. Davidson designed and created five 'swallows in flight' brooches for the women in his family and it is believed an example was exhibited in the Turin Exhibition in 1902. Literature: Gerald and Celia Larner The Glasgow Style, Astragal Books, plate 188 for similar example.

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