Book of Calder Jewelry

A beautifully produced and lavishly photographed book, 288 pages. Hardback with dust jacket in very good condition. Published by the Calder Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition "Calder Jewelry...

Vever’s La Bijouterie Française au XIXem Siècle was first published in France between 1906–08: it has been the bible of all jewelry experts, buyers, sellers, scholars and historians ever since. Only 1,000 copies were originally produced, and it has been out of print for many years, appearing only rarely in the auction houses where it fetches very large sums. This volume – the first ever complete translation into English – includes over 1400 illustrations: photographs, sketches for jewels and prints from fashion magazines. 136 colour photographs of jewels now in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs are new to this edition. All the great and now more obscure jewelers are included in the text and illustrations: Alphonse Fouquet, Boucheron, Falize, Froment-Maurice, Cartier, Chaumet, Georges Fouquet, Gaillard, Vever, Lalique, and many many more. The discussion in the text is not only of the individual jewels and types of jewelry, but also includes many entertaining anecdotes about the jewelers' relations with their customers and with society in general. Being himself a jeweler, Henri Vever...

Fine strand of cultured pearls, 16 inches long, finished with a yellow gold clasp. The 54 matching salt water, round pearls with fine luster...

A flexible bamboo-design two-tone 18k gold and diamond necklace. Each of the two bezel-set round brilliant diamonds (totalling approx. 0.50ct) is artfully connected by a single white...