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AN ART NOUVEAU AGATE, DIAMOND, RUBY, PEARL, ENAMEL AND GOLD CORSAGE ORNAMENT, BY GEORGES FOUQUET
Designed as graduated green plique-à-jour enamel and sculpted gold openwork hinged plaques of a stylized dragonfly and seaweed design, the bodies set with moss agate, each topped by ruby and gold openwork arched antennae and accented by rose-cut diamonds, terminating with a baroque cultured pearl, mounted in gold, circa 1901, with French assay marks and maker's mark, in a G. Fouquet beige suede fitted case
Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquet
Designed as graduated green plique-à-jour enamel and sculpted gold openwork hinged plaques of a stylized dragonfly and seaweed design, the bodies set with moss agate, each topped by ruby and gold openwork arched antennae and accented by rose-cut diamonds, terminating with a baroque cultured pearl, mounted in gold, circa 1901, with French assay marks and maker's mark, in a G. Fouquet beige suede fitted case
Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquet
Provenance
Sold Christie's New York, "Magnificent Jewels", 15 April 1996, lot 216