Ten designs for brooches with flowers, leaves, and scrolls
Drawing with ten designs for brooches, 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. Two of the designs consist of oval-shaped frames of gold, containing small bundles of silver leaves and pearls, and a flower on one case, and with blue and green backgrounds. Two other designs consist of oval-shaped roundels, left blank in the drawing, possibly to be personalized by the customer, with scrolling strips of gold and enamel: blue in one case, green on the other, also containing two stylized, green leaves on the upper part, with hanging round pearls. A similar roundel is framed by a garland of stylized, green leaves and round pearls that scrolls around an oval gold frame. A dinal roundel is framed by a blue oval ring, surrounded by gold scrolls and stylized acanthus leaves, and with a stylized, blue leaf on the bottom. The remaining four designs are smaller: one is a red roundel with a silver monogram, hanging from a gold bow; another a trefoil bow with three hanging strips, decorated with round pearls; the other two are made up of scrolls of gold with round, white pearls; one also with red pearls. The green and blue in the designs would have been created using enamel or inserts of stones of matching colors in the manufactured jewels.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ten designs for brooches with flowers, leaves, and scrolls
- Artist: F. Mellerio Borgnis
- Date: ca. 1830–70
- Medium: Graphite, pen and green, blue, red, yellow, silver, and gold ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.1 × 25.6 cm)
Album: 8 11/16 × 12 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (22 × 30.8 × 4 cm) - Classifications: Albums, Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1957
- Object Number: 57.662.3(16)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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