Live Auction 1350Magnificent Jewels
**A BELLE EPOQUE PEARL AND DIAMOND TIARA, BY FONTENAY
Lot 184

**A BELLE EPOQUE PEARL AND DIAMOND TIARA, BY FONTENAY

Closed15 November 2007

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CHF 44,200

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**A BELLE EPOQUE PEARL AND DIAMOND TIARA, BY FONTENAY
In the Garland Style, designed as a series of interlaced millegrain-set old and rose-cut diamond festoons surmounted by alternating diamond and natural pearl trefoil motifs, to a detachable tortoiseshell comb, circa 1905, 15.0 cm long, in the original fitted pink leather case stamped Fontenay Smets Succr. 19. Place du Marché St. Honoré
Please note that the pearls have not been tested for natural origin
By Fontenay

Specialist note

From a line of respected Parisien jewellers, Eugene Fontenay established his own business in Paris in 1847, moving address to place du Marché-Saint-Honoré in 1858 and quickly gaining a reputation as a leading revivalist designer and craftsman. Dating to the early twentieth century and the new style of Belle Époque design, the fitted case, stamped Fontenay Smets Succ[esseu]r refers to the handing over of the business by Fontenay in 1882 to his workshop supervisor, Henri Smets, while Fontenay himself concentrated on writing his Bijoux Anciens et Modernes.