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AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, ENAMEL AND GOLD PENDANT, BY ANTOINE BRICTEUX
Designed as a gold concave plaque, depicting a rose-cut diamond setting sun over a pastel enamel sky and water, with a floating rose-cut diamond water lily, within a chased gold twin pelican frame, with a diamond accent, suspending a rose-cut diamond drop, mounted in 18k gold and platinum, (with pendant hoops for suspension), circa 1900, with French assay marks
With jeweler's mark for Antoine Bricteux
Designed as a gold concave plaque, depicting a rose-cut diamond setting sun over a pastel enamel sky and water, with a floating rose-cut diamond water lily, within a chased gold twin pelican frame, with a diamond accent, suspending a rose-cut diamond drop, mounted in 18k gold and platinum, (with pendant hoops for suspension), circa 1900, with French assay marks
With jeweler's mark for Antoine Bricteux
Provenance
Sold Christie's New York, "Important Jewels," 9 December 1996, lot 218
Literature
Cf. The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery, 1850-1910, Thomas Heneage & Co. Ltd., London, 1990, page 235, plate 154