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AN ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL, DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE "JUNO" PENDANT, BY BOUCHERON
Centering upon a carved white jadeite Juno, the queen of the gods, with gold hair and a purple, blue and green enamel headdress, accented by old European-cut diamonds and gold bead detail, with a purple enamel breastplate set with a cushion-cut yellow sapphire within an old European-cut diamond surround, flanked by a blue, green and purple enamel peacock with diamond accents, suspending green and blue enamel eye-of-the-peacock feathers and a detachable pear-shaped yellow sapphire and diamond pendant, mounted in silver-topped gold, circa 1900, (with hoops for suspension)
Signed FIC Boucheron for Frédéric Boucheron, Paris
Centering upon a carved white jadeite Juno, the queen of the gods, with gold hair and a purple, blue and green enamel headdress, accented by old European-cut diamonds and gold bead detail, with a purple enamel breastplate set with a cushion-cut yellow sapphire within an old European-cut diamond surround, flanked by a blue, green and purple enamel peacock with diamond accents, suspending green and blue enamel eye-of-the-peacock feathers and a detachable pear-shaped yellow sapphire and diamond pendant, mounted in silver-topped gold, circa 1900, (with hoops for suspension)
Signed FIC Boucheron for Frédéric Boucheron, Paris
出版
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons, 1895-1914, Vollume II, Jewellery, The Designers L-Z, The Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., Suffold, 1994, page 89
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Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1900
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This is the view of Juno, the queen of the gods, given by Virgil in the first book of the Aeneid, a domestic figure wearing the suit of armor. Peacocks, a favorite Art Nouveau motif, were her emblem. The jeweler has colored the entire jewel with her hues and distinctive features.