GT Marsh & Co., a silver and carnelian bracelet, designed in the Chinoiserie style

GT Marsh & Co., a silver and carnelian bracelet, designed in the Chinoiserie style, set with panels of carnelian carved with designs of birds among flowers, spaced by geometric openwork links in silver, length 17.5cm, signed GT Marsh & Co.

GT Marsh & Co. was established in San Francisco in 1876 by George Turner Marsh, an Australian who had emigrated to America via Japan. One of the earliest US galleries specialising in Japanese art, by the 1930s GT Marsh & Co were also producing highly distinctive Art Deco jewels, famed for their unique blackened metal and strikingly modern aesthetic, and jewels such as the present bracelet, infused with the founder's passion for East Asian decorative arts.