COLLECTION OF JEWELLERY, CIRCA 1900

Comprising: a circular pendant depicting the profile of a young girl to a radiating background of green and blue plique-à-jour enamel, signed Becker for Henri Edmond Becker; a brooch centring on a disk with a female profile within a spray of mistletoe set with seed pearls, French assay marks, one simulant pearl bead; an open work brooch designed as entwined lily-of-the-valley decorated in green and white enamel suspending a pearl drop, partial French assay and maker's marks; a brooch designed as a textured pussy willow branch applied with pearls, signed Miault for Henry Miault; a hat pin depicting a winged female form decorated with plique-à-jour enamel, French assay marks; a hat pin depicting stylised branches decorated with plique-à-jour enamel, signed CM, for Charles Boutet de Monvel, French assay marks and maker's marks and a hat pin centring on a grey iridescent baroque pearl within foliate scrolling motifs, accompanied by a glazed display case.

Cf: Sotheby's Catalogue, Fine Jewels, London, 14th April 1999, lot 52 and 53 where these Art Nouveau jewels were previously sold.

Cf: Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery I: The Designers A-K, The Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, page 98 for an illustration of the hat pin by Charles Boutet de Monvel.

Pearl hat pin with French assay marks for 18ct gold good condition, pearl greyish green with rosé overtone, foliate hat pin with some crazing to some enamel cells, figural hat pin in good condition, pussy willow brooch in good condition. Lily of the Valley brooch with French assay marks for 18ct gold, in good condition, mistletoe brooch, with one simulant pearl replacement and partial French assay marks for 18ct gold. Enamel pendant with some crazing to some enamel cells. French import marks for 18ct gold.
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Pearls untested