CARL HERMAN (Herman
and Speck. Pforzheim)
An impressive silver plique-a-jour cricket brooch set with antique
paste.
German. c.1900. Maker’s mark and ‘900’. |
Size: Length 13
cm. Height 2.6 cm. (Cased)
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim, Fritz Falk.  |
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‘TERPSICHORE’,
ART NOUVEAU PENDANT
A gilded silver, plique-a-jour and enamel pendant with a pearl drop.
This Art Nouveau pendant depicts the Muse of Music and Dance holding
a violin rather than the traditional lyre.
German. Pforzheim c.1900. Size: Height 9 cm. Width 5.1
cm.
Original chain. Original, handmade, red and cream, fitted retailer's
case.
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.  |
JUGENDSTIL DRAGONFLY
BROOCH
A silver plique-a-jour dragonfly brooch set antique paste and with
turquoise eyes
in gold settings. German. Pforzheim c.1900.
Indistinct Maker’s mark and ‘925’.
Size: Height 4.4 cm. Width 6.3 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk.  |
LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
An impressive gilded silver plique-a-jour pendant with graduated
colours set with
a central amethyst and pearls with pearl drops. Original chain.
German c.1900. Unidentified mark and ‘900’.
Size: Height of pendant 6.5 cm. Width 6 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.
Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk.  |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A silver, graduated plique-a-jour brooch of leaf form set with pearl
‘buds’.
German c.1900. Marked ‘935’, ‘Sterling’, ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height 3.2 cm. Width 3.3 cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk. 2009.
Illustrated page 212, LB11. (Fitted case) |
| CARL HERMAN (Herman
and Speck. Pforzheim) (Attrib.)
A silver plique-a-jour butterfly pendant set with amethyst and pearl.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height of pendant 3.8 cm. Width 4 cm. Original chain. (Fitted
case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.  |
MEYLE & MAYER
An Art Nouveau, gilded silver, enamel and plique-a-jour brooch with
pearl drops.
German c.1900. Marks for Meyle & Mayer, ‘DEPOSE’ and
‘900’. (Fitted case)
Size: Ht. 4.55 cm. W. 3 cm. Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau
Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. illus. page 263, MM11.
(Fitted case)
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CARL HERMAN (Herman
and Speck. Pforzheim)
A sliver plique-a-jour necklace of graduated colours. (Fitted
case)
German c. 1900. Maker's marks.‘900’, ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height of middle pendant 6.5 cm.
W. 3.4 cm. Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from
Pforzheim. Fritz Falk.
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MEYLE & MAYER
A gilded silver, plique-a-jour brooch of bird with a pearl clutched
in its gilded beak.
German c.1900. Maker's mark and ‘900’. Size: Height 2
cm. Width 4.6 cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk. 2009. Illus. page 268, MM31. See Archive Jewellery
Jugendstil/Art Nouveau-30. (Fitted case) |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A gilded silver, plique-a-jour necklace. The central
pendant set with a pearl
and with a pearl drop. The original chain with plique-a-jour
spacers set with pearls. German c.1900. Marks: ‘HL’,
‘900’, ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Ht. of pendant 3.9 cm. W. 3.3 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from
Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. Illus. page 212, LB10.  |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A Jugendstil silver plique-a-jour brooch set
with two chrysoprase stones.
German c.1900. Maker's mark for Levinger & Bissinger, ‘900’
and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height 2.5 cm. Width 3.1 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.
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| JULES CHERET (1836
-1932) (See also Jules Cheret cufflinks below.)
An Arts Nouveau 18ct. gold and rose cut diamond brooch depicting
a joyous,
elegant lady wearing a diamond choker. A ‘Cherette’,
as the women illustrated in Jules Cheret's posters were popularly
called. French. c. 1900. Signed. ‘Jules Cheret’.
Marks: French eagle’s head mark for 18ct. Size: Ht. 3.1 cm.
W. 2.7 cm.
(Brooch case) |
KARL KARST
A silver pendant of opposing leaves set green chalcedony cabochons.
German c.1910. Marks: ‘KARST’ ‘800’.
Size: Length 5.5 cm. Width 2.8 cm. (Pendant case)
Lit.: Deutsche und österreichische Schmuckarbeiten.
B. Dry-v.Zezschwitz & G. Dry. 
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| MAX JOSEPH GRADL
(1873-1934) for THEODOR FAHRNER
A Jugendstil silver brooch, set with green chalcedony.
German c.1900. Marked for Max Joseph Gradl and ‘TF’,‘DEPOSE’,
‘MB & Co.’ ‘925’. Size: Length 3.5 cm.
Width 2.2 cm.
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. (Fitted case)
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MEYLE & MAYER
An Art Nouveau silver plique -a-jour and enamel pendant.
German c.1900. Maker's mark, ‘900’, and ‘DEPOSE’.
Slight professional enamel restoration to the top of blue enamel leaves.
Size: Height of pendant 3.9 cm. Width 3.2 cm. (Fitted case)
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ART NOUVEAU
An Art Nouveau sliver and pearl Symbolist brooch.
German c. 1900. Marked ‘800’.
Size: Height 2.6 cm. Width 2.9 cm. (Fitted case) |
ALBERT HOLBEIN (1869-1934)
(Attrib.)
A Jugendstil, silver Fabulous Griffin
Beast brooch, with plique-a-jour wings and
with a turquoise in its beak. German c.1900. Unmarked. Size:
Ht. 3.7 cm. W. 4.4 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery. Vivienne Becker. 1985. Illus.
160.
See Archive
Jewellery Jugendstil/Art Nouveau 5. (Hinge reattached.
Fitted case) |
| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A gilded silver, plique-a-jour pendant. The central
mother-of pearl plaque, flanked with graduated blue plique-a-jour
cells set with seed pearls and with a pearl drop.
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
(Small amount of crazing to plique.)
Size: Height 4 cm. Width 3.8 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A silver, plique-a-jour brooch of leaf form set with
turquoise‘buds’.
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height 2.5 cm. Width 3.1 cm.
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Page 229. Illustration 300. (Fitted case)
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OTTO PRUTSCHER (1880-1949)
for HEINRICH LEVINGER
An Egyptianesque,
gilded silver, plique-a-jour, pendant set mother-of-pearl.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘DEPOSE’ and ‘935’.
Original chain and clasp. (Fitted case)
Size: Ht. with bale 4.7 cm. Without bale 4.2 cm. W. 3.55 cm. Chain
length 44.5 cm.
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from
Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. Illus. page 214, LB16. |
| GEORG KLEEMANN
(1863-1932) for THEODOR FAHRNER (Fitted
case)
An important Jugendstil, gold plique-a-jour brooch, set
turquoise, opal, ruby and pearl. German c.1902. Marks:
‘18ct.’ and ‘MB & Co’. Height 3.5 cm.
Width: 4.8. cm.
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Page 109, Illus. 1.73.
Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914. Illus.
page 221. No. 262. Ex. Pforzheim Schmuckmuseum.
Sold |
| GEBRÜDER
FALK. Fritz & Heinrich Falk, Pforzheim. (Attributed)
A Jugendstil gold locket and chain.
Monogrammed to the reverse and dated ‘12 - X1- 1905’
German c.1900. Size: Height 3.8 cm. by Width 2 cm. Depth
0.4 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Page196. |
| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A gilded silver, green plique-a-jour brooch, set with a chrysoprase
cabochon.
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Diameter 3.3 cm. (Fitted case) Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland
und Österreich 1895-1914. Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck
// Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. Illus.
page 220, LB34. |
MEYLE & MAYER
An Art Nouveau silver, varicoloured plique-a-jour pendant/mirror locket.
The swivel action pendant opens to reveal a
mirror.
German c.1900. Marks for Meyle & Mayer, ‘DEPOSE’
‘900’. Size: 5.5 cm. by 3.4 cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk.
Illustrated page 262, MM5. (Pendant case)
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LUCIEN JOSEPH RENÉ
JANVIER (b. 1878)
An Art Nouveau silver brooch.
French c.1900. Marked ‘L. JANVIER’ and French
standard mark for silver.
Size: Height 3 cm. Width 3.2 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery. Vivienne Becker.
Gold example illustrated. |
| JULES CHERET (1836
-1932)
A pair of gold cufflinks. One chased with a masked lady and the
other with a lady with an ornate coiffure. Cheret was a
master of the French poster, who used similar images of women for
his Jewellery. The image of the masked lady appears in the poster
‘Theatre del Opera’. 1896. French c. 1900. Signed. Size
: Ht. 2.1 cm. by 1.9 cm. Sold |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A silver and green plique-a-jour brooch set
with chalcedony. (Fitted case)
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height 2.4 cm. Width 3.5 cm. Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck //
Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. 2009 Illustrated
page 222, LB42. |
JOHN-BAPTISTE EMILE
DROPSY (1858-1823)
An Art Nouveau, 18 ct. gold, double sided, locket set diamonds. The
locket opens
to reveal two photograph compartments. French c.1900. Signed
‘E. Dropsy’, Marked for 18 ct. with French export mark.
Size: Ht. with bale 3.2 cm., without 2.7 cm. W. 2.5 cm. Lit.: Art
Nouveau Jewelry. Vivienne Becker Thames & Hudson. 1985. (Fitted
case)  |
| A. ODENWALD
A Jugendstil silver brooch, stylistically similar to the designs
of Patriz Huber,
set with chalcedony and with a chalcedony drop. German
c.1900. Marks: AO monogram, ‘800’ ‘GESCHUTZ’.
Size: Height 2.6 cm. Width 3.5. cm. (Fitted case)
Lit: Deutsche und österreichische Schmuckarbeiten.
B. Dry-v.Zezschwitz & G. Dry.
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ART NOUVEAU
A silver Art Nouveau pendant depicting two ladies holding
aloft a chrysoprase orb.
The pendant with pearl drops.
Size:- Height without bale 5.6 cm. Height with bale 6.3 cm. Width
3 cm.
Probably American. Unmarked. (Pendant case)
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| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A silver and enamel brooch set with a large cabochon amethyst.
(Fitted case)
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Length 3.6 cm. Width 3 cm.
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery
from Pforzheim., Fritz Falk. Illus. page 237, LB87.
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| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A Jugendstil silver brooch set amethysts with two amethyst drops.
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height. 5.9 cm. Width 3.6 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.
Illustration page 230, number 307. Example in Pforzheim Schmuckmuseum.
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JUGENDSTIL BROOCH.
Pforzheim.
A silver plique-a-jour enamel brooch
set amethyst with three amethyst drops.
German c.1900. Maker unidentified. Obscured maker’s mark ‘900’
and ‘DEPOSE’
Size: Height 3.6 cm. Width 3 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.
|
| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A Jugendstil silver brooch set amethysts with an amethyst drop.
German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’ and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Ht. 3.8 cm. W. 3.1 cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim,
Fritz Falk.
Illustrated page 238, LB90. (Fitted case)
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| THEODOR FAHRNER.
Design attributed to FRIEDRICH KATZ
A silver brooch set with pearls and amethysts.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘TF’ and ‘935’ Size:
Height 2.2 cm. Width 3.2 cm.
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. (Fitted case)
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THEODOR FAHRNER
An articulated, silver enamelled brooch set with an amethyst.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘TF’ ‘DEPOSE’
Size: Height 4 cm. Width 3.8 cm.
(Slight touching in to one enamel cell.)
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. Page 135. (Fitted
case) |
THEODOR FAHRNER
A silver pendant, modelled as a basket of flowers, set amethysts and
pearls,
with green, black and white enamelling.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘TF’ and ‘935’ Size:
Length without ‘rosette’ 6 cm. Width 3.4 cm.
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. Page 135. Illustration
1.119.(Fitted case)
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| LEVINGER &
BISSINGER
A silver, plique-a-jour brooch set with a central amethyst, with
an amethyst drop. German c.1900. Maker’s mark ‘900’
and ‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height 3.2 cm. Width 3.3 cm. Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art
Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz Falk. 2009. Illustrated
page 211, LB7. (Fitted case) |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER
A silver plique-a-jour pendant with graduated colours set with three
amethyst and with an amethyst drop.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘HL’, ‘900’,
‘DEPOSE’.
Size: Height of pendant with bale 6.6 cm. Width 3.4 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase.
Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz
Falk. Sold |
PATRIZ HUBER (1878-1902)
for THEODOR FAHRNER
A Jugendstil silver brooch with opal shards set in glass paste.
(Fitted case)
German 1900-1902. Marks: ‘PH’, for Patiz Huber ‘TF’,
for Theodor Fahrner ‘MB & Co.’, for Murrle Bennett
& Co.‘REGD', and ‘950' Size: Ht. 3.3 cm. W. 3.5 cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk. Illus. page 163, F37.
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MAX JOSEPH GRADL
(1873-1934) for THEODOR FAHRNER
A Jugendstil silver brooch set turquoise with blue enamel.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘TF’ ‘MB & Co.’
‘950’ ‘REGD’. Size: Length 8 cm.
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. Page 94.
Illustration 1.31c. (Fitted case) |
A. ODENWALD
A gilded silver brooch in the Secessionist style, set with paste stones
and a faux
turquoise. The drops with blue enamel plaques. German c.1910.
(Brooch case)
Marks: AO Monogram, ‘900‘‘GESCHUTZ’. Size:
Height 4.1 cm. Width 3.7 cm.
Lit.: Deutsche und österreichische Schmuckarbeiten.
B. Dry-v.Zezschwitz & G. Dry.  |
ALBERT KAHLBRANDT
(1878-1961)
A Jugendstil silver brooch.
German c.1920. Marks: ‘Kahlbrandt’ ‘Hamburg’
‘800’ ‘Handarbeit’.
Size: Diameter 4.6 cm. (Brooch case)
Lit.: Deutsche und österreichische Schmuckarbeiten.
B. Dry-v.Zezschwitz & G. Dry. |
GEORG KLEEMAN (1863-1932)
for THEODOR FAHRNER
A Jugendstil silver
brooch set with chrysoprase.
German c.1900. Marks: ‘TF’ ‘REGD’ ‘950’.
Size: 3.9 cm. by 3.6 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Illustration page 220, number 258. Example in Pforzheim Schmuckmuseum.
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JUGENDSTIL PENDANT
A silver, green enamelled pendant. The triangular chalcedony stone
suspended
from a central ring. German c.1900. Unidentified maker. Marks
‘935’ ‘Sterling’‘Depose’ Size:
Ht. with bale 3.7 cm. Ht. without bale 3.2 cm. W. 3.1 cm. Illus.
Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz
Falk. Illus. page 212, LB9. (Pendant case) |
A. ODENWALD
A Jugendstil silver brooch, stylistically similar to the designs
of Patriz Huber,
set with chalcedony and with a chalcedony drop. German c.1900.
(Fitted case)
Marks: ‘GESCHUTZ’ and ‘AO’ ‘800’
to clasp . Size: Height 3.2 cm. Width 3.5. cm.
Lit.: Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau Jewellery from Pforzheim.
Fritz Falk. |
| ALBERT HOLBEIN
(1869-1934) (Attrib.)
A Jugendstil, Fabulous Griffin Beast silver comb, having a plique-a-jour
body and with its wings set with chrysoprase. A pearl clutched in
its beak.
(Crazing to the plique-a-jour and repair to horn comb)
German. Circa 1900.
Marks: ‘DGRM’ ‘900’ and Austrian silver
import mark.
Size: Width of silver comb 6.3 cm. Total height of comb 14.7 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery. Vivienne Becker. 1985.
Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914. Ulrike
von Hase. (Fitted case) |
£10,000+