DEVANT DE CORSAGE ANIMALIER BROOCH IN GOLD AND SILVER
GRANDE SPILLA ANIMALIER DEVANT DE CORSAGE
in oro e argento, realizzata a forma di tralcio fiorito sul quale sono appoggiati due uccellini e una piccola ape, interamente impreziosita da diamanti taglio vecchio e a rosa, due rubini e uno smeraldo taglio cabochon, punzoni francesi e n.seriale, dim. cm 18,5x7 circa, gr. 65. Corredata di scatola.
This charming brooch is unsigned. however, the elegance in the style and the mastery in the execution of its components are vividly reminiscent of examples made by historic High Jewelery Maisons active in the 19th century in Paris, such as Vever, and Debacq & Cie. The irresistible reference to Nature of the subject depicted, the extreme technical skill in creating each individual element, together with the ability to perfectly set the stones in the structure giving body and light to the jewel, find illustrious stylistic comparisons such as, for example, the brooch that the well-known Parisian designer and goldsmith René Lalique designed for Vever in 1889.
Provenance
Private collection
Bibliography
Jewellery Kaleidoscope, "Lalique designed singing bird brooch for Vever, 1889", Rene Lalique Art Nouveau jewellery, 9/10/2015.
Vever one of the leading French jewellery firms of the 19th Century was founded in 1821 by Pierre Vever in Metz, moving to Paris in 1871. They exhibited at Moscow, Chicago, and Brussels winning a Grand Prix at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900. Henri Vever 1854-1942, Pierre’s grandson, was a renowned jewellery historian and author of the seminal work on 19th Century jewellery, ‘La Bijouterie Francaise au XIXe siecle’, published in 1908 of which the third volume covers the leading Art Nouveau jewellers of the period.