A painted matt enamel and gold brooch by Eugène Fontenay
Paris, circa 1870
mounted in yellow gold, with seven suspended pendants, portraying within a frame of pearls Demeter the Greek Goddess of the harvest, grain and fertility, the painting by enameller Eugène Richet.
5.1 cm in length.
With Fontenay’s maker’s poinçon and the French eagle’s head assay stamp for gold.
£13,200
Similar jewels depicting deities from ancient Greece by Fontenay are illustrated in: La bijouterie Francaise au XIXe Siècle, by Henri Vever, (Translated edition p. 649)
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