Designs for seven bracelets with scrolling branches and leaves

F. Mellerio Borgnis

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Drawing with designs for seven bracelets, part of an album of drawings in pen and ink of designs for jewelry in the style of the French School of the 19th century, designed for the French jewelry house Mellerio-Borgnis. The first bracelet is made up of a gold bangle, a gold scrolling motif in the center, and a green scroll that interlaces around the golden motif to form a verical 8-shape. The second bracelet consists of a golden bangle and an oval frame in the center, the inside of which would have likely been personalized for independent customers, with small, round pearls and green scrolls and a ribbon bow. The third design is made up of a thin, gold bangle with a small frame in the center, containing a silver-y quatrefoil and flanked to the sides by stylized scrolling leaves of gold. The fourth design is made up of a golden banle and a large, oval roundel, framed by strips of pearls and blue scrolls, which are flanked below by three round pearls; the interior of the roundel would have been personalized for the customer. The fifth design consists of a vertical eye-shaped gold frame containing a blue ground and round pearls around a rectangular-cut diamond, flanked to the sides by two gold scrolls that join together to form a thin bangle for the body of the bracelet. The sixth bracelet is made up of a gold body with a thin, vertical oval in the center, framed by blue scrolls, and flanked to the sides by two small, round pearls. The last bracelet is made up of golden scrolls that interlace to form the body of the bracelet, and which are decorated by a thin garland of stylized, green leaves and small rosettes made up of groups of small, round pearls. The green and blue areas of the designs would have been created with enamel or with small stone inserts of (semi-) precious stones of those colors in the manufactured jewel.

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