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Lot 29 Dα

A Baroque gold, enamel and gem-set floral brooch

Auction 1066 - overview Cologne
19.05.2016, 17:00 - Jewellery and Watches
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)
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A Baroque gold, enamel and gem-set floral brooch

Designed as a stylised bouquet with three twisting flowerheads richly polychromed in cloisonné and relief enamels and set with eight emeralds, ten rubies and four table-cut diamonds in closed foiled settings. Enamel of the leaves chipped. Damage and repairs to the enamel of the reverse. The brooch mountings replaced. 5.8 x 5 cm. Weight 20.3 g.
Spain or Sicily, ca. 1680.

Literature

Cf. Kugel, Joyaux Renaissance, Paris 2000, p. 151 for a similar floral brooch with a ladybird. Kugel lists three further examples in the Patrimonio Nacional in Spain (inv. no. 00635706), the Museo Regionale Pepoli in Sicily (inv. no. 5478) and in a Venetian private collection. The latter published in: Rossi, Oreficeria Italiana, Milan 1974, pl. 83.