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JANVIER QUERCIA – MATCHING POCKET, CIRCA 1905

MATCHING POCKET, 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 elmet 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, 14 March – 26 June 2000, ill. full page 259, n. 265

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