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Jean Schlumberger

The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art

Yale University Press, New Heaven/London 2018 , 120 pages

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Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects, artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907–1987) played a key role in 20th-century fashion with his vibrant sculptural designs for whimsical jewelry and accessories. After beginning his career crafting costume jewelry for designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1930s Paris, Schlumberger opened his own private salon at Tiffany & Co. in the mid-1950s and began attracting celebrity clients, including Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy. This stylish catalogue presents highlights from the unrivaled collection of Schlumberger’s work given to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by horticulturist, philanthropist, and longtime supporter of the museum Rachel Lambert Mellon. Both commissioned and collected by Mrs. Mellon, these magnificent cigarette cases, pill boxes, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and objets d’art celebrate the shared passions that united artist and patron: love of nature, dedication to perfection and beauty, and clarity of vision.

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Objects of Desire (Parure)

1. An antique silver and paste parure, Portuguese, late 18th century. Comprising a necklace, a brooch and a pair of earrings

2. The Princely House of Borghese Diamond Suite of Riviere and Earrings: 2nd Half of 19th Century (Earrings: Later): Diamond(appr.100-110ct) Albion Art Collection Tokyo

3. Antique gold and coral parure, Naples, 1850-70

4. An antique coral parure, French

5. A beautiful early amethyst parure, 1790s, French. It's combe featuring nine large oval amethysts and eight smaller ones set into the filigree

6. A Parure from the Neoclassical period of France

7. Marie Louis Ruby and Diamond Parure. Nitot 1810

8. Emerald parure that belonged to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma and Empress of the French. The parure was a gift of Napoleon Bonaparte to Marie Louise on the occasion of their wedding and it includes a diadem, a necklace, earings, a comb and a belt clasp/brooch. Created by Etienne Nitot et fils, the parure is consisted of a total of 138 emeralds, 382 rose-cut diamonds and 2,162 brilliant-cut diamonds.

9. Magnificent Cartier London ruby diamond parure reputedly made for Mrs. Marshall Field. Sold at Christie’s Geneva November 1973. The entire set was broken up except the earrings

10. Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), German School. Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819

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Objects of Desire (Porcelain Flower Vases and Objets d'art )

1. Vincennes French porcelain in Dresden Germany 1749

2-3 A Louis XV ormolu-mounted Sèvres bleu celeste porcelain seau crénelle the seau crénelé circa 1769, the flowers Vincennes circa 1745-50; Vincennes porcelain factory (1738-56) The Sunflower clock c. 1752 Soft-paste porcelain, gilding, green-lacquered brass wire (for the stems), gilt bronze mounts

4-5 Collection of fifty-one 18th and 19th century Continental porcelain flowers, sold at a 2012 Christie's auction; Chinaman with Bird, ca. 1727 Germany, att. George Fritzsche (1698–1756, working at Meissen from 1711) Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts and soft-paste porcelain flowers. mounts French and flowers Vincennes

6-7 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Germany) — Covered Urn; A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted Chinese porcelain famille rose pot-pourri vase the porcelain 18th/19th century, the mounts 19th century on a shaped bronze base 33cm. high

8. Carl Thieme, Saxon Porcelain Manufactory at Potschappel, Dresden

9. Italian Porcelain Flower Filled Urn

10. Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Vase

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The Treasure Trove Of Dresden (Dresden Green Vault)

“ Europe and possibly the world’s largest collection of treasures, objects d’art, cabinets of curiosity, baroque contraptions, and generally royal weirdness is all held in Germany’s Grünes Gewölbe or Green Vault. Originally the private collection of Augustus the Strong, ruler of Saxony (modern day Dresden), the Green Vault has everything from ornate silverware with polished coral handles to nearly microscopic portrait reliefs of royalty carved in cherrywood or ivory (you have to look through a magnifying glass to see them). There are Venetian wind-up automatons that pour wine and various other ornate cabinets and contraptions. The collection even includes such contested items as the solid gold drinking bowl of Ivan the Terrible. The literal crown jewel of the Green Vault is the impossibly rare Dresden Green; a massive, naturally irradiated, green diamond from India. The diamond is on par with the Hope Diamond and the Mountain of Light in the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. It is an internally flawless hunk of beautiful green carbon mounted in a hat clasp and no picture will do it justice.”