AN ANTIQUE DIAMOND PARURE
AN ANTIQUE DIAMOND PARURE

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AN ANTIQUE DIAMOND PARURE
Comprising a brooch with three pavé-set diamond vine leaves and old-cut diamond 'berries' suspending a series of six diamond collet and foliate pampilles; together with two matching pampille brooches of smaller size and a necklace designed as a series of foliate figure-of-eight links interspersed with graduated old-cut diamond collets, mounted in silver and gold, adapted, circa 1870, necklace 41.0cm long, brooches 9.0cm, 10cm and 10cm long, in blue velvet fitted case by Morel & Co. (4)
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Cf. Bernard Morel, The French Crown Jewels, Fonds Mercator 1988, pp. 340, 342, 345

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Angela Berden
Angela Berden

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The design of the brooches is typical of the mid-19th century fashion for a cascade of gem stones diminishing in size and terminating in a thin pointed 'icicle' motif.
This style is known as en pampilles and is much in evidence in the French Crown Jewels sold privately in 1887. The firm of Bapst created several important jewels featuring pampilles for the Empress Eugénie. These included the Great Comb à Pampilles, the splendid Currant Leaf Parure, both dating from the mid 1850s, and the girdle buckle of 1868.