MARGRET CRAVER: AN 18K GOLD, CAT'S EYE CHRYSOBERYL, AND ENAMEL RING, CIRCA 1950 Bezel-set throughout with oval cabochon cat's eye chrysoberyls, with white enamel accents, weight 6.1 dwt, unsigned, approximately size 7. Footnotes: Yvonne J. Markowitz was the first Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also a past editor of the 'Journal of the American Society of Jewelry Historians' and editor of 'Adornment.' She has written extensively on jewelry. From the Estate of Margret Craver Withers 1907-2010. Margret Craver was a very accomplished largely self-taught modernist jeweler and metalsmith. Craver was born in Pratt, Kansas, and introduced to metalsmithing as a design major at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s. In 1937 she traveled to Sweden to study with Baron Erik Fleming, silversmith to the King. Under his tutelage, Craver refined her craft and sharpened her skills. Silver was her medium of choice, but she also worked in enamel and gemstones. During the war Craver taught metalwork to veterans as a means of therapy at Walter Reed Army Hospital. From three, she was appointed Director, Craft Service Department, at Handy and Harman. Craver cur her own gemstones and discovered the last technique of en resille enameling. Her numerous awards include two from the Philadelphia Art Alliance: First Award in 1938, and Certificate of Merit in 104- for a bonboniere now at the Art Institute of Chicago; Medal of Honor, Wichita Art Association, 1949; Honorary Member of the Master Gold and Silversmiths Guild in Sweden, 1950; Gold Medal for Excellence, American Craft Council, 1986; and in 1989, a year after her retirement from metalsmithing, Craver was honored for 'Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts' by the Women's Caucus for Art. Her work is in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing