Frank Gardner Hale described himself as a designer, jeweler, and enamelist. Hale studied design theory with Henry Hunt Clark at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, during the late 1890s, and at Charles Robert Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden, England, in 1906. When Hale returned to the United States in 1907, he was well prepared to open his own studio in Boston. He became a force in the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, and won numerous awards for his designs, including a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915). A prominent maker and advocate for Arts and Crafts jewelry, he created work diverse in style and form. This gemset brooch, with its arabesques and swirling vines referencing Renaissance motifs, exemplifies the colorful, glitzy jewelry Hale created in Boston.