Maison René Boivin Design by Marie Caroline de Brosses Ateli - Lot 165

Maison René Boivin Design by Marie Caroline de Brosses Atelier Cristofol Tête de Lynx Pendant in silver above 800 thousandths and yellow gold 18k 750 thousandths featuring a Lynx head, the eyes set with emerald-cut emeralds in claw-set on gold, the feline's nose highlighted with gold thread, the godronnée setting. Dimensions of emeralds: 1 (left): approx. 4.82 x 3.96 x 3.27 mm for approx. 0.48 carat 2 (right): approx. 4.95 x 3.98 x 3.52 mm for approx. 0.52 carat Dimensions: 55 x 57 mm Gross weight : 42.23 grs €5,000 Marie Caroline de Brosses (1947 - 2019), was the designer at Maison René Boivin between 1970 and the late 1980s, following Suzanne Belperron (designer between 1919 and 1932) and Juliette Moutard, (from 1933 to 1970) who succeeded the latter directly. Among the multitude of jewels she designed, she proposed a series of animal pendants, notably of felines. She explains in an interview that her favorite creations were "perhaps the animal heads in oxidized silver. I started with a panther's head; it was so successful that I went on to design a lynx's head, then a ram's." Here we have this second model, a lynx head, rarely referred to as such. Our pendant is a work from the 1970s/80s, and in the same interview, this designer mentions Atelier Cristofol as having made this type of jewelry. Which is the case for our pendant. Source: Capucine Junker, property of lady website, article Marie- Caroline de Brosses: mes années chez Boivin et après (page 4) Expert: Alexandre LEGER alexandreleger.expert@gmail.com