Pamela Hull was the granddaughter of Stanley Field, longtime head of the eponymous Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and nephew of Marshall Field of department store fame. A descendant of two Chicago legends, Pamela was a lifelong resident of the nearby suburb Lake Forest.

A devoted Anglophile, Pamela had a great fondness for English-style gardening and would often open her own garden to visitors with ticket sales benefiting the Lake Forest Garden Club. As an adult, Pamela did coursework at the Attingham School in Shropshire, England, a program which focused not only on the restoration and interpretation of historic houses, but also on their vast holdings of pictures, pottery, books and metalwork. A testament to her skill, Pamela's garden was accepted into The Garden Club of America's Archives of American Gardens Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

A stalwart member of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, a support group dedicated to acquiring American and European decorative arts for the museum, Pamela developed a passion and expertise for porcelain, with Chinese Export holding pride of place in her interests. As collectors do, she turned to dealing to share her passion and make room for new acquisitions.

Pamela’s love of jewelry was genuine and longstanding. An elegant hostess, Pamela was warm and genuinely interested in meeting the next generation of garden and antique devotees. Christie’s is honored to present this small legacy of her connoisseurship to the next generation of jewelry collectors.