(above) Ed Wiener pendant/brooch with Janeway ceramic insert. Pelican in gold. ca.1948. author’s collection; ex-coll. Carol Lane.
(above) Ed Wiener as he appeared in a 1950s issue of Craft Horizons.
(above) Reverse view of Wiener-Janeway pendant/brooch. Pelican in Gold. ca 1948.
Starting in 1947, Janeway and Ed Wiener, upcoming NYC silversmith and jewelry maker, started an arrangement by which he incorporated her decorated ceramic “gems” in these characteristic heavy settings. Most of her gems are signed “Janeway” or “C.J.” yet some are unsigned. They were sold from his “Arts and Ends” shop(s). These pendants and rings are co-creations. His catalogs do not credit Janeway for the ceramics.
(above) Ed Wiener-Janeway pendant, Dragon in Silver. ca. 1948. as depicted in www.925-1000.com. location unknown.
Quite an amazing collaboration, I was not aware of this and it needs to be part of the Canon of modernist jewelery.
Thank you for bringing it to light.