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Decorator, Les Collections, Jewellery, Celebres, D'Oeuvres D'Art, Bijoux De La Renaissance, From the Collection De M la Baronne J de Rothschild, Plate 11, 1864
Decorator, Les Collections, Jewellery, Celebres, D'Oeuvres D'Art, Bijoux De La Renaissance, From the Collection De M la Baronne J de Rothschild, Plate 11, 1864
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Date: 1864
Engraver: Delatre
Published by Goupil and Co, Editors, in Paris
Paper Size: 445 x 305mm
Print Size: 225 x 165mm
Condition: Good
Technique: Copperplate Engraving, Later hand colouring
Price: $200
Description:
No. 1.
PENDANT in enamelled gold, enriched with diamonds & fine pearls. In the centre is a group composed of Venus & two cupids, one of which presents the goddess with an apple enamelled in red. The flesh is of a slightly pinkish white enamel; the hair is golden, as well as the girdle that wraps around Venus' body. This group stands out in relief on a portico whose arc is in gold enamelled with blue, and which supports columns formed of diamonds in tables. Below the diamond. square which serves as the base for the small aedicula, smiles a cherub's head with enamelled wings of red, white & pale blue. Three dangling pearls complete this jewel. The reverse depicts the opposite side of the monument, through delicate ornamentation where gold plays with green, blue, red & white enamel.
French work in the style of the reign of Henry II.
No. 2.
PENDANT in enamelled gold, enriched with fine pearls, enamel & precious stones. This jewel is composed of three gold chains with openwork ornaments & enamelled in white, red & some black threads. The central chain supports an eagle whose outstretched wings are of red & blue enamel; the body is black, and the talons are gold. Below, a ruby set in a square mount forms the centre of a kind of star composed of six table diamonds also enclosed in a rectangular setting. This decoration, in very high relief, is applied to a gold ornament cut open and enamelled in white. Seven pearls hang from the bottom of the jewel. Sixteenth-century work.
No. 3.
PENDANT in enamelled gold, enriched with fine pearls. The upper part of the jewel, which is supported by a double gold chain, is formed of an openwork medallion surrounded by the winged heads of four cherubim & which represents the Virgin, kneeling before a prie-Dieu, & receiving, in the presence of the Holy Spirit, the visit & greetings of the celestial messenger. The Virgin & Angel figurines are coated in blue, red, green & white enamel. Three chiselled & enamelled gold ornaments hang from the medallion & each supports a fine pearl. This jewel, with an elegant & light design, is completed by a hanging garland made up of six pearls set in a gold interlacing cut & enamelled with red & blue. To this garland is attached half of a baroque pearl depicting a sheep, like the one supported by the necklace of the Golden Fleece. Work from the second half of the sixteenth century.
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