Designs for six bracelets with natural motifs
Drawing with designs for six 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 yellow gold base, decorated with green scrolls and garlands of stylized flowers and leaves, to be made possibly with silver and pearls. The second bracelet is made up of a yellow gold base decorated with blue scrolls and scrolling branches of yellow gold with stylized silver leaves and oval and round pearls of different sizes. The third bracelet is made up of a yellow gold bangle with green strips, possibly to be made with enamel in the manufactured jewel, which interlaces around two pearls on the sides of the bangles, and four scrolls of gold that frame a pale green, square-cut stone in the center of the bracelet, which is flanked by two white round pearls above and below, and by two square diamonds to the sides. The fourth bracelet is made up of two gold strips held together by two vertical scrolling strips of gold, and with the space between them filled by alternating green scrolls, possibly to be made with enamel, and curved strips of pearls and small, semi-abstract leaves, possibly to be made with silver and diamonds. The fifth bracelet is made up of a yellow gold bangle with an elongated, horizontal opening on the front, which is interlaced by a green circle and a transversal strip, possibly to be made with enamel, and a horizontal garland of stylized leaves, possibly to be made with silver, decorated with round pearls and small, square-cut diamonds. The final bracelet is made up of two strips of gold that form a knot in the center of the bracelet, which is adorned by scrolling, stylized, green leaves, to be made possibly with enamel, and several teardrop pearls.
Artwork Details
- Title: Designs for six bracelets with natural motifs
- Artist: F. Mellerio Borgnis
- Date: ca. 1830–70
- Medium: Pen and black, green, yellow, and blue ink, with traces of graphite, heightened with gray wash
- 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(6)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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