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Title Page of Jewelry Catalog with Price List from Blancard & Co

Manufactory Blancard & Co.
ca. 1870–99
Not on view
Jewelry catalog with price list from Blancard & Co., a business for the manufacturing of settings for jewelry, established in the late 19th century by Christian Blancard, with a title page/overview and 6 plates with phorographic illustrations of jewelry parts manufactured by the company. The title page contains the name and address for the company on the heading, and presents an engraving of a Rococo design, with an intricate pattern of scrolling motifs, which would be sold at $4 per foot. It calls the attention of the viewer to the rings, French spring wires and filigree balls, bracelets and clusters presented in the catalog, as "each design is an art piece of itself." Under these words advertising the works of the manufactory is a list of products in the catalog, divided by categories: rings, Blancard's French spring wires, filigree balls, ornamental designs, bracelets and clusters, and prices of gold.

Two of the plates of the catalog contain photographs of different designs for bracelets, 9- and 10-stone clusters, French spring wires, and filigree balls, all numbered for price references. The remaining four plates contain photo-lithographic reproductions of designs for necklaces, bracelets, earrings and pendants, called "ornamental designs" in the catalog, with historic styles featuring scrolling motifs, acanthus leaves, grotesques and fantastic creatures, together with pearls and stones, of Rococo styles.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Title Page of Jewelry Catalog with Price List from Blancard & Co
  • Manufactory: Blancard & Co.
  • Published in: Leipzig
  • Date: ca. 1870–99
  • Medium: Photo-lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
  • Object Number: Ref.Ornament.21
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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