Lot Essay
Cf. V. Becker, Art Nouveau Jewelry, New York, E. P. Dutton, 1985, p. 62, ill. 79 for the illustration of a similar jewel
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Details
AN ART NOUVEAU PEARL AND ENAMEL PENDANT/BROOCH, BY HENRI VEVER
Modelled as a stylised wisteria branch, the surmount applied with white enamel and green window enamel leaves, to the articulated pearl drops, 1900, 11.0 cm, with French assay mark for gold
Signed Vever Paris, no. 2429
Please note that the pearls have not been tested for natural origin.
Modelled as a stylised wisteria branch, the surmount applied with white enamel and green window enamel leaves, to the articulated pearl drops, 1900, 11.0 cm, with French assay mark for gold
Signed Vever Paris, no. 2429
Please note that the pearls have not been tested for natural origin.
Literature
H. Vever, La Bijouterie Française au XIXème siècle, Tome III, Paris, 1908, p. 678 for the illustration of this jewel
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