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AN ATTRACTIVE ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL AND DIAMOND DRAGONFLY BROOCH BY LACLOCHE
The polychrome plique-à-jour enamel wings with rose-cut diamond wing tips to a diamond-set body and tail, enamel eyes and diamond mouth, to textured legs, with French control marks, circa 1900, 12.0cm. wide, in fitted Lacloche case (enamel damaged, unsigned)
Dragonflies were often used in Art Nouveau jewellery, their wings well suited to the use of plique-à-jour enamel. Cf. M. Flower, 'Victorian Jewellery,' (1973) pl. 9, fig. a, for an almost identical brooch by Lacloche of Paris. Cf. Koch, Possémé, Rudoe, Munn, de Gary, Furrer, Arminjon, Herzog von Württemberg, 'The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery Jewellery making in Paris 1850-1910,' Thomas Heneage & Co. Ltd. (1990), p. 149 for a similar example by Boucheron, circa 1903. It is mentioned that Boucheron bought Riffault's patent after he died in 1872 which included insect wings in enamel set with diamonds.
The polychrome plique-à-jour enamel wings with rose-cut diamond wing tips to a diamond-set body and tail, enamel eyes and diamond mouth, to textured legs, with French control marks, circa 1900, 12.0cm. wide, in fitted Lacloche case (enamel damaged, unsigned)
Dragonflies were often used in Art Nouveau jewellery, their wings well suited to the use of plique-à-jour enamel. Cf. M. Flower, 'Victorian Jewellery,' (1973) pl. 9, fig. a, for an almost identical brooch by Lacloche of Paris. Cf. Koch, Possémé, Rudoe, Munn, de Gary, Furrer, Arminjon, Herzog von Württemberg, 'The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery Jewellery making in Paris 1850-1910,' Thomas Heneage & Co. Ltd. (1990), p. 149 for a similar example by Boucheron, circa 1903. It is mentioned that Boucheron bought Riffault's patent after he died in 1872 which included insect wings in enamel set with diamonds.