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A MAGNIFICENT ART NOUVEAU AGATE, DIAMOND, GARNET, PEARL, ENAMEL AND GOLD CORSAGE ORNAMENT, GEORGES FOUQUET
Fouquet, Georges
The two white and black enamel egrets, with long rose-cut diamond openwork plumes, enhanced by baroque pearl drops, resting upon a purple and red enamel and plique jour green enamel base, enhanced by a fancy cabochon garnet, suspending a drop-shaped cabochon moss agate, within a sculpted gold frame, mounted in matte-finished 18K gold, with a French hallmark and maker's mark, circa 1901
Fouquet, Georges
The two white and black enamel egrets, with long rose-cut diamond openwork plumes, enhanced by baroque pearl drops, resting upon a purple and red enamel and plique jour green enamel base, enhanced by a fancy cabochon garnet, suspending a drop-shaped cabochon moss agate, within a sculpted gold frame, mounted in matte-finished 18K gold, with a French hallmark and maker's mark, circa 1901
Literature
For illustration of the corsage ornament see:
"Les Fouquet: Bijoutiers & Joailliers Paris 1860-1960", Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, 1983, p. 158, pl. 80
Henri Vever, La Bijouterie Francaise au XIX Sicle", III, Paris, 1908, p. 753
Alastair Duncan, "The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Jewellery I: The Designers A-K", Suffolk, p. 256
"Les Fouquet: Bijoutiers & Joailliers Paris 1860-1960", Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, 1983, p. 158, pl. 80
Henri Vever, La Bijouterie Francaise au XIX Sicle", III, Paris, 1908, p. 753
Alastair Duncan, "The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Jewellery I: The Designers A-K", Suffolk, p. 256
Exhibited
This corsage ornament was exhibited in Paris in 1901 and 1933.