Signed Anni & Bent Knudsen. Pendant length ca 13 cm, inner diameter ring ca 12 cm, weight ca 57 g.
Bent Knudsen was an important figure in Danish modernist jewellery, known for precise craftsmanship and a clear, restrained design language. Trained as a silversmith at C. M. Cohr in Fredericia, he later worked at the influential Hans Hansen studio from 1946, a centre for Scandinavian silver design in the mid-twentieth century.
In 1956 he founded a workshop with his wife Anni Knudsen, producing jewellery defined by sculptural simplicity and refined silverwork.