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Nouveau recueil de parures de joyaillerie : second livre

Pouget, Jean Henri Prosper, d. 1769. Traité des pierres précieuses et de la manière de les employer en parure, Chez Pouget, Md. Joyaillier · 1764 · A Paris : Chez Pouget, Md. Joyaillier ... et Chez Tilhard, Libraire · 21 pictures

A jewelry pattern book published in Paris in 1764 by Pouget, a jeweller, with Tilhard as bookseller, offering designs for settings and ornaments for jewellers and their clients. The engraved plates show stylised ornaments: foliate sprays, bows, cluster rosettes, oval and lozenge mounts with beaded or scrolled borders, and pendant drops. A designer could take the period repertoire of rococo-era jewel mounts, from radiating floral fans to garland strands and closed link bands.

Jewelry settings

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