Painted enamel necklace
Session begins in
March 31, 08:30 AM GTNN
Estimate
26,000 - 45,000 EUR
Bid
20,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Ornated with four painted enamel medallions, depicting Renaissance women and men profiles, the openwork links decorated with arabesques and scrolls, set with rose-cut diamonds.
- Inner circumference approximatively 385 mm
- The paintings are signed A. Mayer
- Second half of 19th century
- Gross weight 124.07 grams
- Additional links
Alfred Meyer was a late 19th-century enamel painter. He studied under the Neoclassical painter François‑Édouard Picot (1786–1868) and, like several future enamel artists, worked at the Sèvres Manufactory from 1858 to 1871, helping to keep alive the traditional techniques of Limousin enamel painters.
At the same t.mes , Meyer pursued a career as an independent artist. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1864 and showed his work in 1874 at the studio of the photographer Nadar during the Impressionist exhibition. In 1895, he published a book on the subject, The Art of Limoges Enamel.