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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY (1/2 cause this is part of a duet thingieee)

Frederick Richard Pickersgill (English, 1820-1900)

Hebe holding a cup of nectar to Jupiter in the form of an Eagle, c. 1795/96 by Ignaz Unterberger. British Museum

Antique Victorian Long Rose Cut Garnet Brooch

Pendant with Three Dragons

late Qing dynasty -  about 1800-1911 

Designed as a ultramarine blue champlevé enamel baton link chain suspending an ornately enchanting pendant

Depicting four dragonflies clustered as a mirrored formation with paillonné enamel bodies

Transparent ultramarine blue to green over metallic foil throughout body

Featuring plique-à-jour enamel wings with transparent bluish green enamel

Dragonflies are clustered around a pair of mirrored pear cut aquamarines

Weighing approximately 11.00 carats total - transparent medium blue in color

Set with talon prongs in decorous draped garland motif mountings

Pendant is removable via spring clasp closure on chain

Brooch is completed by hinged pinstem with locking closure

Tested as 18 karat gold

Fully signed for Rene Lalique

Circa: 1903

Acknowledged as one of the few renditions of the Quatre Libellules design

Belgian Art Nouveau Candelabrum by Sculptor Égide Rombaux and Silversmith François Hoosemans. Made in Brussels in 1900, materials are silver, ivory and alabaster. From The National Gallery of Australia, accession number: 88.1492