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ARTHUR-EUGENE ARCHAMBAUT
'Le Héron et l’Escargot' Buckle
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ARTHUR-EUGENE ARCHAMBAUT
'Le Héron et l’Escargot' Buckle
Gilded silver
H 6.50cm (2.56 in) | W 4.10cm (1.61 in)
| Origin | France, 1908 |
| Marks | Maker's mark: 'HRI TETERGER FILS' & ' Eagle's head |
| Case | Fitted Case |
| Weight | 34.30 Grams |
Delightful Japonisme inspired buckle.
A well documented Art Nouveau buckle illustrating the fable of 'The Heron & the Snail'.
The moral of this fable by La Fontaine is 'would you be strong and great, learn to accommodate'.
Alexander Dumas refers to this fable in The Three Musketeers.
Literature
llustrated in our book:
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2021, p. 280
Exposition de la Parure Precieuse de la Femme, 1908, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery
Volume I: The Designers A-K, Alastair Duncan, 1994, illustrated: p.36
Price Code
Ref No 6800
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