Six designs for brooches with stylized leaves, scrolls, ribbons, and pearls

F. Mellerio Borgnis
Manufacturer Mellerio dits Meller French

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Drawing with six 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. The first design consists of three golden scrolls, separated by scrolling strips of round pearls, from which hang garlands of scrolling strips of gold and pearls, with a larger, teardrop shaped pearl hanging from the bottom. The second design consists of a bundle of large, stylized leaves and strips of pearls, held together by a scrolling ribbon of gold. The third design is made up of a gold ribbon bow motif with three loops, from which hangs a large, teardrop shaped pearl framed by a strip of square-cut brilliants or diamonds, a strip of pearls, and a strip of gold with another strip of gold that interlaces around it, and with several stylized leaves and smaller teardrop pearls, also framed by square-cut brilliants or diamonds hanging around the central frame. The remaining three designs consist of cartouches of different types, with crown motifs and different types of scrolls of gold.

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