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‘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’