JANVIER QUERCIA – PINTO J. – INKWELL, CIRCA 1900
INKWELL, CIRCA 1900
Silver, decorated in high relief with thistles, with its glass bucket
Signed under the base J Pinto
With French Minerva mark
13 cm. large
QUERCIA Janvier
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JANVIER QUERCIA – POCKET WATCH BOX, CIRCA 1905
POCKET WATCH BOX, CIRCA 1905
Finely chased and hammered silver with a relief decoration of vine branches
and leaves, decorated with plique à jour enamel, the grapes in amethyst-colored glass
Bearing the silversmith and Minerva marks
7.5 cm. diameter
Silversmith and jeweler, Quercia executes jewels, mainly in silver but also in gold, for many prestigious jewelers including Vever. Among the plaques and medals exhibited at the Société des Artistes Français in 1900, a Madonna and Child
by Ch. Pillet and a medal by Théodore-Rivière are reported as belonging to M. Quercia elder, most probably Janvier Quercia. Hence we assume that he edited works of these two artists.Quercia specialized in the creation of belt buckles, canes and umbrella handles, chains, pendants and brooches, finely
chased and incorporating enamels. He also distinguished himself by designing religious silverware
JANVIER QUERCIA – VEVER – CANE KNOB, CIRCA 1900
CANE KNOB, CIRCA 1900
Melted and chased vermeil with translucent enamel figuring a woman’s head. The helmet is decorated with stylised patterns in green openwork enamel; with opal enamel cabochons
Signed VEVER Paris. With silversmith and French Minerva marks
94.5 cm. long
Exhibition
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, March 14 – June 26, 2000, ill. full page 259, n. 265
Maison Vever, 9 rue de la Paix, Paris, Dans l’intimité de Vever, bijoux et objets d’art depuis 1821,
June 1st – August 11th, 2023
Bibliography
This model is illustrated in an advertising by Janvier Quercia in the magazine supplement Art et Décoration, December 1904, p. 8
JANVIER QUERCIA – J. PINTO – UMBRELLA HANDLE, CIRCA 1900
UMBRELLA HANDLE, CIRCA 1900
Silver gilt representing the dancer Loie Fuller
With silversmith and French Minerva marks
13 cm. long
Bibliography
A similar object, with 8 pegs and its original box of Bel Frères in Marseille, attributed to
“J. Pinto, France” was sold on April 24, 1971 to Parke-Bernet Galleries New York
Important Art New Jewelry & Objects of Virtue, Lot n.14