10/11/2019
***SOLD***
~ $1,495.00~ INTAGLIO GLASS CUFFLINKS, HUNT DOGS, REVERSE PAINTED, DOUBLE SIDED, c'1905, 14K, RARE.
RARE Circa 1905 VINTAGE 14K YELLOW GOLD WITH REVERSE PAINTED INTAGLIO GLASS DOUBLE SIDED HUNTING DOGS CUFFLINKS. CUSTOM MADE HAND CRAFTED.
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THE BACKGROUND IS MOTHER OF PEARL. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
HUNTING DOGS ARE PAINTED ON GLASS.
WEIGHT: APPROXIMATELY 13 GRAMS TOTAL. SIZE: EACH BUTTON IS APPROXIMATELY 15.25mm OR 6/10th" WIDE WITH A DEPTH FROM FRONT TO BACK OF APPROXIMATELY 5.75mm-6.25mm. THE CONNECTOR LENGTH IS APPROXIMATELY 5/8". TOTAL LENGTH OF EACH CUFFLINK IS APPROXIMATELY 1 3/16"
PLEASE LOOK AT PICTURES CAREFULLY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WE WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. THERE IS A 14K HALLMARK ON THE BACK OF EACH OF THE TWO CUFFLINKS, THOUGH THE STAMP IS NOT TOTALLY COMPLETE. ADDITIONALLY THERE IS A VERY FAINT, JEWELER HAND ENSCRIBING, WHICH READS: "168-6-MIE-X-AOX". VISIBLE IN TWO OF THE IMAGES IS MILD DISCOLORATION WHICH MIGHT BE CORRECTED BY A GOOD JEWELER. THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE HAND MADE PIECES WORTHY OF PASSING FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. THANKS FOR LOOKING. DUCK.
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REVERSE INTAGLIO CRYSTALS
An object first carved in reverse into the underside of a flat-backed piece of rock crystal, with a polished domed cabochon face, which slightly magnifies the finished work, then realistically oil painted in minute detail, also in reverse. Sometimes they were backed with ‘ mother of pearl ‘ to enhance the three dimensional ‘trompe l’oeil’ effect. Moonstone was occasionally used as an alternative material in which to carve.
First displayed at The London International Exhibition of 1862, by the London firm of Lambert and Rawlings, engraved by a Mr Cook, (sometimes referred to as Charles and as Thomas), acknowledged as the inventor.
One of Cook’s pupils Thomas Bean, who founded a family business continued by his son Edmund, and grandson Edgar, supplying firms such as Wilson & Gill, Hancock’s and Harvey & Gore, the latter two until Edgar’s death in 1954.
The French jeweller Fontenay acknowledged the English with this invention of adding painting to reverse engraving. Some attribute the invention to the Frenchman Ernest William Pradier, (b.1855), who first worked in France, then in England from the 1870’s. His father sold the intaglios to the French, his son Ernst Marius (b.1881) who sold to Americas’ Tiffany’s among others.
At the Paris 1878 Exhibition, Marshall’s of Edinburgh exhibited a polychrome (white) variant. This was short lived with the popularity and quality of the polychromatic type peaking in the late Victorian era. High quality deteriorated after the 1920’s.
At one time, the crystals were wrongfully attributed to Queen Victoria’s court appointed enameller William Essex. However he had no connection with the reverse intaglio crystal
Quality is recognised by the naturalistic reproduction of the subject and by the extent of the three-dimensional effect, achieved by the accuracy of the carving and painting. Size and depth of the crystal are also important, along with detail. Large crystals are rare. The settings of the crystal are significant, very plain gold or silver surrounds were normal, more interesting or jewelled mountings would reflect the owner’s opulence or the regard in which they held their animal.
Subject matter is of course important, pieces were often unique, commissioned by the owners of pets and horses. These were portrait pieces and often of wonderful quality.
The physical process is painstaking. It begins with finding flawless rock (once mined in France and Spain). The rock is cut with diamond saws and then ground to a perfect cabochon. Non cabochon shapes are rare. This procedure could take as many as twenty different grades of polish, and the entire process is done by hand.
Once the crystal is shaped, the design is drawn, the image is then etched in reverse. The engraving begins, and the carver may use as many 250 of special tools to complete the job. Then begins the painting all in reverse sometimes using pins or brushes that are used have only a single hair.
The jeweller usually adds a background. These change, generally earlier crystals are backed with gold foil, but silk, etched mother of pearl, and plain mother of pearl were used are all used.
Generally, these pieces are undervalued. Only a handful of artists have ever produced them. They are in our opinion as important in their own right as portrait miniatures of the “ human “ variety, which are highly collectable.
