Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts
An Henri Vever corsage brooch from 1905, featuring Mississipi pearls, diamonds, enamel, gold and silver from
An Henri Vever corsage brooch from 1905, featuring Mississipi pearls, diamonds, enamel, gold and silver from
Brooch, c. 1920, natural pearls, diamonds, lapis-lazuli, platinum.
Private collection.
Van Cleef & Arpels, Gladiator brooch, 1956, yellow gold, emeralds, rubies, turquoise, pearls, baroque pearl, diamonds.
Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.
Frédéric Boucheron, necklace and earrings of Edith Amelia Glyn, Lady Wolverton, 1896–1902, natural pearls,
diamonds, gold, silver.
Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.
“Belle Epoque” five strand natural pearl
necklace, circa 1910, natural pearls, platinum.
Private Collection, courtesy of the Albion
Art Institute.
René Lalique (1860 – 1945), ring, c. 1910, natural pearl, diamonds, enamel,
yellow gold.
Private collection.
Necklace, 1900, natural pearl, diamonds, platinum.
Collection Templier.
Germain Bapst (1853-1921) and Lucien Falize (1839-1897), pendant, c. 1880,
grey natural pearls, diamonds, gold.
London, Wartski.
Brooch, c. 1925, natural pearls, diamonds, platinum.
Private collection.
Carlo and Arturo Giuliano, necklace, c. 1890, natural pearls, enamel, gold. Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.
Pearl necklace, c. 1880, natural pearls, diamonds, gold, silver.
Collection Faerber.
Necklace, 1890, natural pearls, diamonds, gold, silver.
Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.
Necklace, c. 1910, natural pearl, diamonds, white gold, platinum.
Private collection.
Georges Fouquet (1862 – 1957), ring, c. 1920, natural pearl, diamonds,
platinum.
Collection Faerber
Frank Eugene (1865–1936), The Pearl, 1900–1909. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
George Barbier, “The Fountain of Shells. Paquin Evening Gown,”
Gazette du bon ton, no. 3, plate 27, 1914.
Owl pendant, c. 1880, baroque pearl, diamonds, rubies, gold.
Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.
René Boivin, half set, bracelet and clip, inspired by the “Barbare” series, 1935–1937, granulated gold, natural pearls.
La Galerie parisienne.
Van Cleef & Arpels, evening bag, 1924, platinum, pearls, onyx, diamonds.
Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.
Van Cleef & Arpels, vanity case, c. 1925, yellow gold, pearls, enamel, diamonds.
Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.
JAR, Sheep’s head brooch, 2006, natural pearls, cabochon star sapphires, aluminum, silver, gold. Private collection.
Dusausoy brooch circa 1930 innatural pearls, diamonds, platinum.
London, Symbolic & Chase.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, advertisement for Van Cleef & Arpels from 1923.
Jewelry in the “Paris, City of Pearls” exhibition include this owl pendant featurign a baroque pearl, part of Albion Art Institute’s collection; a 1900 necklace, part of the Templier collection; and a floral corsage brooch by Henri Vever.