Jewelry, Watches & Signatures - Tuesday 28 November 2023 - 14:30

2 picture(s) Appraisal : 300/500 €

Hammer price : 450 €
LOT N°001

Beautiful three-part butterfly-shaped Flemish cross in 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold and silver, adorned with faceted diamond chips. The slightly worn modern chain is in 18k gold. Beautiful filigree work (a few small soldering points). Late 18th - early 19th century. Regional jewelry.
Cross length: 7.5 cm.
Gross weight: 11 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 300/500 €

Hammer price : 300 €
LOT N°002

Charming necklace consisting of a chain and pendant adorned with small turquoise stones and natural micropearls on knife-edge links typical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Necklace length: 42 cm.
Gross weight: 4.6 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 80/120 €

Hammer price : 95 €
LOT N°003

18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold brooch decorated with doubled-back stamping and set with a central silver decoration of small turquoises and a micro-pearl. Late 19th century. Pin sometimes reacting with 18k acid and presumed to be at least 14k (585 thousandths).
Dimensions: 3 x 3.8 cm.
Gross weight: 3.3 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 100/150 €

Hammer price : 120 €
LOT N°004

Late 18th-century cross in 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold and silver, set with three-sided faceted diamond chips (two missing) on paillon.
Dimensions: 4.7 x 3.2 cm (including setting)
Gross weight: 4.2 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 400/600 €

Hammer price : 550 €
LOT N°005

Very original 18k yellow gold (750 thousandths) photo holder pendant adorned with small turquoise and chrysoprase cabochons between twisted filigree and beautifully executed granulation. The inner glass is in very good condition and attached. Small dents on the back shell.
Dimensions: 5.9 x 4 cm (including setting).
Gross weight: 17.1 g.
3 picture(s) Appraisal : 200/300 €

Hammer price : 550 €
LOT N°006

Set of four pendant-mounted seals, two in 18k (750 thousandths) and two in 14k (585 thousandths). One of them features a motto "our [palm design] unite us", a 19th-century intaglio of a human figure and two unengraved niccolos. Probably English, late 19th century.
Average height: approx. 2.2 cm.
Gross weight: 20.5 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 350/450 €

Hammer price : 350 €
LOT N°007

Early twentieth-century cross in 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold set with small 8x8 natural diamonds and formed of thin gold bands giving an openwork shape. Very fine workmanship.
Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.4 cm.
Gross weight: 7.5 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 1000/1200 €

Hammer price : 0 €
LOT N°008

Beautiful cross in 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold, decorated on the front with an amati background at the tip, filigree and granulation. Small natural sapphires embellish the whole (small chips). Very fine goldsmith's work, probably of Greek origin.
Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 cm.
Gross weight: 22 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 250/450 €

Hammer price : 250 €
LOT N°009

18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold brooch set with a very dark sapphire cabochon surrounded by round brilliant diamonds, each approx. 0.06 ct., and a rope motif.
Length : 2.8 cm.
Gross weight: 9.9 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 200/300 €

Hammer price : 0 €
LOT N°010

Barrette brooch in 15 ct. yellow gold set with small cultured pearls and two small synthetic sapphires (Verneuil). Safety chain. Early 20th century.
Length: 5.8 cm.
Gross weight: 3 g.
1 picture(s) Appraisal : 200/300 €

Hammer price : 250 €
LOT N°011

18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold and silver pin featuring a snake head with a finely engraved body enameled in transparent orange enamel and a head paved with faceted diamond chips and ruby eyes. Dutch hallmark 750 on a foreign production. Beautiful 19th century work.
Length : 6.2 cm.
Gross weight: 3 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 3000/4000 €

Hammer price : 0 €
LOT N°012

François-Désiré FROMENT-MEURICE (1801-1855)
Remarkable pendant in oxidized silver depicting a Gothic setting with a transparent blue glass background. A central group of figures in 18k (750 thousandths) cast yellow gold depicts a crusader departing with a knight kissing good-bye to his lady, whose train is held by a page. Another page holds the knight's helmet. Guarantee hallmark on the pin and goldsmith's hallmark on the lower back of the jewel. Circa 1850.
Dimensions: 6 x 6.7 cm.
Gross weight: 47.2 g.

Expert's note:
François-Désiré FROMENT-MEURICEwas one of the great Parisian silversmiths of his time, whose works

Read more were dispersed throughout Europe. Starting out as an apprentice chiseler with Lenglet, he quickly became a renowned silversmith, notably for his jewels reminiscent of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Numerous prizes and medals crowned his career, which came to an end just a few weeks before the 1855 Universal Exhibition.
A similar example is in the British Museum, inv. no.: 1978, 1002.725 (donated by Hull Grundyen 1978). It features the same horizontal diamond-shaped hallmark with the letters FL and a balance in the center. The London model does not have a blue glass background over the entire surface, but in two panels, leaving the center openwork. Another similar iconographic model is preserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in the form of a chatelaine (inv. no.: 24059, gift of 1924), which does not feature blue glass but touches of blue enamel on certain architectural elements.
Reference: Pariser Schmuck, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, München, 1989, p. 51, 88-89.

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1 picture(s) Appraisal : 400/600 €

Hammer price : 570 €
LOT N°013

18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold snake chain ending in a 14k (585 thousandths) yellow gold clasp bearing the Dutch leaf hallmark. Very fine work from the very early 20th century.
Length : 39 cm.
Gross weight: 16.7 g.
1 picture(s) Appraisal : 150/250 €

Hammer price : 250 €
LOT N°014

Very fine late 19th century 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold pin featuring an eagle in flight holding a small round white pearl in its beak. Unsigned.
Length : 8 cm.
Gross weight: 3.5 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 200/350 €

Hammer price : 0 €
LOT N°015

19th-century silver and silver-gilt brooch set with faceted garnets, probably Bohemian (2 missing), illuminated by small natural pearls and half-pearls. Pin in 14k (585 thousandths) yellow gold.
Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.1 cm.
Gross weight: 21.1 g.
10 picture(s) Appraisal : 1200/1800 €

Hammer price : 1200 €
LOT N°016

Napoleon III 18k (750 thousandths) rose gold and silver openwork bangle featuring a line of rose-cut diamonds alternating with heated natural blue sapphires (chips).
Wrist circumference: 18 cm.
Gross weight: 35 g.
1 picture(s) Appraisal : 50/100 €

Hammer price : 40 €
LOT N°017

Hook set with four hooks of different sizes and a beautiful carnelian handle, all in gilded metal in the original velvet and leather case.
Handle length: 8.9 cm.
Gross weight: 48.3 g.
1 picture(s) Appraisal : 80/120 €

Hammer price : 120 €
LOT N°018

Moretto-style pin in 14k (585 thousandths) pinkish-yellow gold, featuring a bust of a Moor with a black-enameled face and white turban. The top of the turban is a coral cabochon and the front stone a small synthetic ruby.
Length: 7 cm.
Gross weight: 2.2 g.
2 picture(s) Appraisal : 300/500 €

Hammer price : 400 €
LOT N°019

Dragonfly in 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold, the body paved with small 8x8 diamonds, the eyes in sapphires and enameled on the wings (small missing parts). Italian production, 1980s.
Dimensions: 3.9 x 5 cm.
Gross weight: 9.2 g.
1 picture(s) Appraisal : 500/700 €

Hammer price : 580 €
LOT N°020

18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold sautoir chain from the late 19th century, composed of quadrifoliate links surrounded by skilfully worked gold wires.
Length: 92 cm.
Gross weight: 16.9 g.