Design for a brooch (?) with leaves and pearls
Drawing with a design for a brooch (?), 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 design consists of scrolls of gold with interlacing, elongated, stylized leaves of green color, and small branches with smaller stylized, silver leaves and round and oval pearls. A combination of silver and gold would have been used in the manufactured jewel to achieve the different metallic colors in the design; the green leaves would have been made with green enamel or using small, green (semi-) precious stones.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a brooch (?) with leaves and pearls
- Artist: F. Mellerio Borgnis
- Date: ca. 1830–70
- Medium: Graphite, pen and black, green, yellow, and gold ink, heightened with gray wash and white gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (18.7 × 26 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(24)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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