AN ART NOUVEAU MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD HAIRCOMB, BY GEORGES FOUQUET, PROBABLY FROM A DESIGN BY CHARLES DESROSIERS

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AN ART NOUVEAU MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD HAIRCOMB, BY GEORGES FOUQUET, PROBABLY FROM A DESIGN BY CHARLES DESROSIERS
Designed as an iridescent pink, green and blue mother-of-pearl fan-shaped panel, enhanced by textured 18k gold organic rays with three baroque pearl accents, to the tortoiseshell comb, circa 1905, with French assay mark and maker's mark
Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquet

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's Geneva, "Magnificent Jewels", 16 November 1995, lot 24

Literature

Michael Koch, The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery 1850-1910, Thomas Heneage & Co., London, 1990, page 306, plate 244

Sale room notice

Please note in the Librairie d'Art Décoratif, the maker of the comb is given as Aristide-Lionel Le Couteux. Thus, the signature of Georges Fouquet could refer either to the manufacturer or to the retailer.

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