Chromolithograph with designs for nineteenth-century jewelry

Chromolithograph with a reproduction of a lithograph with designs for nineteenth-century jewels in the style of the French Second Empire (1852-1870), which was characterized by extravagant motifs with complex compositions of naturalistic jewelry, composed of clearly recognizable foliage, flowers and fruit, and often presenting frames or roundels with female figures dressed with draped, neoclassical clothes. In many cases, the colors of gemstones used in the creation of the jewels were meant to match those in nature; cabochon gems were popular elements to create complexity in curving and figurative designs, often with symbolic meanings.
The plate contains a design for a pendant made up of an escutcheon framed with C-curves, and inside which hang a shell with three foliage festoons, executed with green and blue, hanging from a fragment of a green rope metal chain. To the sides of the pendant are two earrings, one made up of a hand with a sleeve cuff, decorated with tiny diamonds, holding a shell made up of diamonds that contains an oval, white pearl in the center, and another made up of a blue frame containing chain links of diamonds inside, and three white teardrop pearls hanging under it. Below them is a bracelet, made up of a thin bangle of green color with S-curves linked by fleurs-de-lis, with a round-edged rectangular blue frame in the center, which contains a love trophy with a flaming torch and a bucket of arrows, over a thin garland of stylized flowers and leaves, executed with shades of gray. Finally, at the bottom of the sheet are three pendants: two oval shapes, both of blue color, one bordered with green, hanging from a hasp with a gray ribbon bow, and with three ribbons with bows tied horizontally across the oval, the other with a thin branch with flowers and leaves, with a bee standing on it, all with diamonds, and an oval hasp also with diamonds. In-between the two oval pendants is a cross pendant, executed with green, and decorated with scrolling borders, stylized leaves, and decorated with round diamonds and small, white pearls.