Lot Essay
cf. Alastair Duncan, "The Paris Salons, 1895-1914: Volume I", Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994, page 251
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AN ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL AND GEM-SET "PEACOCK" BROOCH, BY GEORGES FOUQUET
Designed as two opposing peacocks, their entwined sculpted and textured gold bodies, adorned by demantoid garnet accents, extending calibré-cut opal and pale bluish green enameled openwork feathers, the feather "eyes" enhanced by cabochon opals, terminating in a suspended pink blister pearl, circa 1900
Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquet, no. 3207
Designed as two opposing peacocks, their entwined sculpted and textured gold bodies, adorned by demantoid garnet accents, extending calibré-cut opal and pale bluish green enameled openwork feathers, the feather "eyes" enhanced by cabochon opals, terminating in a suspended pink blister pearl, circa 1900
Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquet, no. 3207