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A black freshwater cultured pearl necklace by Ingeborg Bratman, composed of black freshwater cultured pearls, 42cm long; together with a pair of black freshwater cultured pearl earrings by Ingeborg Bratman, 4.4cm long; a carved smoky quartz flower head pendant by Ingeborg Bratman, the smoky quartz pendant carved as a pansy, on a facetted smoky quartz bead necklace with cultured pearl detail, 42.5cm long; a multi gem set necklace by Ingeborg Bratman, composed of facetted green beryl, aquamarine, morganite and heliodor beads with freshwater cultured pearl accents, 42cm long; together with a green stone necklace by Ingeborg Bratman, 45cm long The Stock In Trade of Ingeborg Ruth Bratman (1935 - 2015) Ingeborg Ruth Bratman was born in Vienna in 1935, but grew up in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and was educated in Switzerland and at the Sorbonne. In 1954 her father sent her to Leicester to study textiles with the view to entering into the family textile mill in Huddersfield. In 1965 Inge enrolled at Hornsey College of Art to study jewellery, where she studied under the tutelage of Gerda Flöckinger, one of the most celebrated jewellery artists of the Post-War period. Inge continued to study jewellery at Sir John Cass College until 1971, when she began to exhibit her jewels both nationally and internationally alongside the leaders of British Jewellery Design such as John Donald and Wendy Ramshaw In the mid 1970's Inge pushed the boundaries of jewellery design with her experiments in making jewellery from tantalum.​ There are pieces of Ingeborg Bratman jewellery in the permanent collections of both the V&A and Science Museum in London. In an interview in 2010 just before an exhibition in Edinburgh, Inge summed up the ethos behind her jewellery designs: "I've always gone for natural forms. I love plants. I find them fascinating. I like things with movement. I like jewellery to be something you'd enjoy wearing."