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Maker: Gautrait, Léopold Albert Marin
Gold, green, blue and white enamel, and green and grey translucent plique-à-jour enamel, set with two sapphires. Three sided with a triangular loop for suspension at the top, and two 'legs' on the lower edge; detachable pin-fastening on the back. In the centre is the head of a woman in profile to right earing a peacock headdress, the tail feathers of which fan out to fill the outline, the sapphires forming the 'eyes'. On the back, engraved lines fill the peacock's outline. Has unaccessioned case not original.
History note: John Jesse & Irina Laski Ltd., 160 Kensington Church Street, London, W8 from whom purchased by Mrs J. Hull Grundy
Given by Mrs J. Hull Grundy
Height: 4 cm
Width: 3.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1982-11-29) by Grundy, J. Hull, Mrs
End of 19th or early 20th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1900
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, blue and white, and green and grey plique-à-jour enamels)
Frame
composed of
gold
Decoraton
Accession number: M.49-1982
Primary reference Number: 119002
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Brooch" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119002 Accessed: 2023-05-29 06:18:45
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Accession Number: M.5-1970
Accession Number: M.41-1984
Accession Number: GR.3.1978
Accession Number: CM.1660-2001
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