Eight designs for brooches with pearls, scrolls, and stylized leaves

Drawing with eight designs for brooches, part of an album of drawings in pen and ink of designs for jewelry in the style of the French School of the 19th century, designed for the French jewelry house Mellerio-Borgnis. Most of the designs consist of scrolls of gold with garlands of stylized leaves, mostly colored with green, and pearls; one of them contains a blue, 8-shaped motif interlacing around the gold scrolls, and another contais a red, oval ring around which the gold scrolls interlace. One of the design consists of a roundel, left empty on the design possibly to be personalized for the customer, framed by interlacing gold branches with stylized, green leaves and small, round pearls. The final two designs consist of a gold C-curve holding a stylized, green leaf, from which hang strips of gold with small, round pearls. The green, red and blue accents in the designs might have been achieved using enamel or (semi-) precious stones of the desired colors in the manufactured jewels, and a combination of silver and gold would have been used to achieve the different colors of metals in the designs.