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A RENAISSANCE-STYLE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED BAROQUE PEARL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF EUROPA AND THE BULL

BY ALFRED ANDRÉ, PARIS, CIRCA 1860

Details

A RENAISSANCE-STYLE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED BAROQUE PEARL PENDANT IN THE FORM OF EUROPA AND THE BULL
By Alfred André, Paris, circa 1860
The oval green guilloché enamel base overlain with polychrome scrolls and set with diamonds, redstones and four pendant pearls, the bull with baroque pearl body supporting the figure of Europa, with suspension chains and ring, the chains set with pearls and joined to a quadruple scroll link with pendant pearl
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high overall

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. no. E.de R.637.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, London, 1979, fig. 896.
P. Stone, 'Baroque Pearls - II', Apollo, Jan. 1959, p. 108, fig. V.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The plaster mould with traces of polychrome for the base of this pendant is recorded as being from the workshop of Alfred André (see A. Kugel, R. Distelberger & A. Bimbenet-Privat, Joyaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur Retrouvée, Paris, 2000, Annexe, pl. xxxvi-i).

Another very similar version of Europa and the Bull attributed to Alfred André was formerly in the collection of Maurice de Rothschild in Paris and sold by Duveen to P.A.B. Widener. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington (see R. Distelberger, et.al., Western Decorative Arts, Part I, Washington, 1993, pp. 288-90).

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