Christopher Nigel Lawrence was born in 1936. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He organized his own workshop and created jewelry and dishes of his own design. He became the owner of 28 prizes at the competitions of the Council of Jewelers and earned 3 awards in memory of Jacques Cartier, became a member of the Institute of Professional Jewelers and a liverman of the Guild of Honored Jewelers (an old professional association of London jewelers).
Christopher Nigel Lawrence’s Christmas presents are made of mushrooms of various shapes in silver and gilding, set on their slate stands. Hidden under each mushroom cap is a miniature scene with a Christmas theme.
The surprise scene under the hat depicts a Christmas dinner: an elf and a fairy sit at a table in party hats and share Christmas cookies.
The textured gilded silver mushroom cap rises to reveal a silver elf decorating a silver gilded Christmas tree with carnelian, onyx, tiger’s eye, chalcedony and lace agate baubles while a silver fairy pins a silver star to the top of the tree. To the side of the tree is a silver staircase, on top of which is a silver basket with a tiger’s eye and agate. The textured silver leg transitions into a slate base.
A silver and gilded textured conical mushroom cap hides a fairy figurine sitting among the mistletoe, while an elf rises between the holly leaves.
Under a textured silver conical mushroom cap, a scene shows an elf and a fairy singing hymns under a lantern suspended from a tree, a basket of glowing coals at their feet.
Surprise: a figurine of Santa putting gifts in a sock.
Surprise: an elf figure who decorates a snowman and puts a pipe in his mouth, and a fairy puts a straw hat on him.
