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Jean Despres Elegant Candlesticks Signed French Silver Plate Metal

Name: Jean Despres Elegant Candlesticks Signed French Silver Plate Metal
Brand: Jean Despres
Rating: 5 (90 reviews)

$8,000List Priceper set

About the Item

Jean Despres important French designer, known for original jewelry designs, champagne buckets, cocktail shakers, and many fine objects of art. This spectacular pair of heavy candlesticks with a hand signature on the bottom of each candlestick, sign J. Despres. This smooth silver-plate finish is a technique you see often in his work in addition to the hammered finish. The pieces offered here have an exceptional feeling. Many pieces developed with his signature the addition of a heavy link chain called “gormette”. This adorned many of his pieces and played very well against both polished and hammered surfaces, and these pieces were in great demand, and remain so today. His jewelry perfectly expressed the new esthetic of the time. He participated in a number of exhibitions, and his jewelry was very well received. His revolutionary jewelry designs were of three types – “bijoux glaces”, “bijoux moteurs”, and “bijoux ceramique”. Desprès enjoyed using unusual materials in his jewelry. In 1937, he designed a series of pendants, necklaces, bracelets, and pins that incorporated ceramic medallions in the neo-classical style executed by the ceramicist Jean Mayodon. He was nicknamed “the Picasso of jewelry work”, and exhibited in all the important national and international exhibitions, and won numerous prizes. His work was appreciated by, (and purchased by) many important writers and artists- Anatole France, Paul Signac, Francois Pompon, the influential critic and curator Andre Malraux, and more recently, Andy Warhol, who was an enthusiastic collector of his jewelry and boxes. Moving on through the 1940s, ’50s, and into the 1970s, his work became somewhat less complex, relying more on a hammered surface with perhaps a simple motif, and he also produced some interesting pieces in 18k gold, but most of the later pieces do not have the originality and power of his earlier designs.

Creator:
Jean Despres (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)Width: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)Depth: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Art Deco (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Silver Plate
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1930-1939
Date of Manufacture:
1930s
Condition:
Refinished. Minor losses. restored finish.
Seller Location:
Oakland, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 31461stDibs: LU871424143282

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