Antique 1900s Charles Horner English Arts and Crafts silver enamel necklace

A Charles Horner Arts & Crafts pendant with iridescent blue-green enamel accents. This piece is very typical of the pendant necklaces that Horner's company produced during this period. The necklace features a shapely wing-like pendant with large cutaways gathered in an enameled circle. The edges of the pendant have a stained glass appearance, with segmented shapes popping with color against the sterling background. A little enameled drop suspends below. Full hallmarks for Horner, sterling silver, Chester assay, and the year 1909. Some wear to the enamel consistent with age. 

Measurements: 19" chain, 1 1/2" drop
Era: 1900s 
Markings: Charles Horner's mark + English hallmarks for silver, Chester, and the year 1909

From the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum page about Horner:

"Charles Horner (English, 1821–1896), trained as a “watchmaker, jeweler, and silversmith” and was listed thus in early directories of Halifax, in Yorkshire, England, as well as in its 1871 census. After his training, he set up a firm to retail and manufacture jewelry, watches and small silver articles in Halifax in about 1867.

After its start as a retailer in Halifax the firm was primarily a manufacturer and wholesaler predominantly through catalogues. The retail side of Charles Horner lasted from about 1867 to 1905. With the creation of a purpose-built manufactory in Mile Cross, Halifax, in 1905, Charles Horner Ltd. dropped the retail side of the business and devoted itself to manufacturing and wholesale until 1984. The major center of jewelry industry and trade was Birmingham. Although the firm remained headquartered in Halifax, they opened a Birmingham retail and wholesale showroom in 1895. The retail shop there, like that in Halifax, was closed in 1905, but Birmingham continued on with wholesale wares only until about 1940. As Birmingham was the center of the jewelry industry and trade, this enabled the Horners to display their goods to buyers coming to see jewelry products there. Charles’s two sons, James Dobson Horner, the businessman, and Charles Henry (Harry) Horner, the artistic one, ran the Birmingham operation until their father’s death in 1896, after which the two sons remained in charge of the whole firm, still based in Halifax, until James’s untimely death in 1913.

The firm moved to its purpose-built factory at a time when Art Nouveau jewelry at the height of fashion. It is from the period 1905 to 1913, after this factory was opened and before James’s death, that the brooches and pendants in the museum collection exist. This was firm’s strongest period; after James’s death followed rapidly by World War I, and a general strike of 1920, the art nouveau style with which the firm was so associated, was no longer in fashion. Although new enterprises, such as molded Dorcasine plastic jewelry and giftware revived the firm later, the art nouveau period, along with the Thimble production, were the firm's primary areas of production."