ATTRIBUTED TO FALIZE Years 1880COLLIER "DIANE DE POITIERS
" He wears in the center a rectangular central motif, an enamel representing a portrait of Diane de Poitiers framed with the DD mavelin and white and black enamelled fleurs-de-lis, a crescent moon paved with diamonds cut in pink. A fine black enamelled garland highlighted with small diamonds, a pearl pearl (not tested) in pampille. The neckband is made of three rows of flower links and two round motifs enamelled with the DD mavelot and punctuated with white and black enamels. The reverse of the three medallions are finely engraved with the same decoration. French work. 18K yellow gold setting. Numbered 83. Gross weight: 51,01 gr. Dim. of the central motif:
3.2 x 8 cm. Length of the necklace: 37.5 cm.

An enamel, diamond, natural pearl and gold necklace

attributed to Falize, circa 1880Defence of the Neo-Renaissance styleLes
FALIZE, La belle Diane et l'
historiscicme à la française

Avant le symbolisme et l'Art Nouveau qui sublimèrent la femme dans toutes ses registrtes, Some 19th century artists on the wave of historicism and all the "Neo" inspirations please Neo is not a misrepresentation but the Neo-Renaissance applied with this delicacy and understanding of the techniques of working with gold and enamel,

with the

same imperatives of quality as in ancient timesThe goldsmith Taburet made these necklaces for the Falize House, there is another copy in the case of Boin-Taburet, with a different portrait of Diane

but in the same veinMusée

des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, for a copy with the

second portrait of Diane On

the Museum site we find that we indicate an attribution to Lucien Falize, so we can subscribe to this attribution for our

copy alsoRéf

:



Pasiser Smuck 1999, for a copy with also a variant of the portrait of

Diane, P.161W

eb article on the Institut du Grenat website, under Jewellery 19th

century Katherine

Purcell, Falize, Thames and Hudson, 1999, P.234 and 235 for a variant and confirmation of the existence of some specimens with subtle variantsDiane



mistress of Henri IV, a queen without a crown, but whose symbol of the crescent moon of the Diana huntress has crossed the centuries