Cone Cube 8k Gold and Oxidised Silver Ring

‘Cubicist’ is a bold vision of contemporary, industrial design that is edgy, elegant and luxurious. Here, Emre stages a meeting of contrasts to create jewellery that are as modern an...

‘Cubicist’ is a bold vision of contemporary, industrial design that is edgy, elegant and luxurious. Here, Emre stages a meeting of contrasts to create jewellery that are as modern an...

‘Cubicist’ is a bold vision of contemporary, industrial design that is edgy, elegant and luxurious. Here, Emre stages a meeting of contrasts to create jewellery that are as modern an...

‘Cubicist’ is a bold vision of contemporary, industrial design that is edgy, elegant and luxurious. Here, Emre stages a meeting of contrasts to create jewellery that are as modern an...

Yianni Creations Hephestos Collection 100% Handmade Artisan Ring from Fine Silver. The ring features a unique oxidized Rhodium finish complemented by unique techniques of craftsmansh...

Yianni Creations Hephestos Collection 100% Handmade Artisan Ring from Fine Silver. The ring features unique oxidized Rhodium background in contrast with the white opposite. The ring ...

This ring is in 18 karat white gold with 15x15x8 mm grown blue quartz. It was published in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue UA. This piece can be personally signed. It will be packed as a gift. The ring reflects the art deco spirit and fits to women and men. This ring inspires the architects, designers and the artists. It is a big ring and it attracts the attention by the big gem. The gem has an unusual cut and it is open for the light. This ring becomes the centre of the jewellery collection as every-day black-dress or a great watches...

Composed of silver, lacquer and reverse painted and engraved crystal, this exceptional ring was a collaboration of two French modernist artists, Després and Cornault. The ring centers a glass crystal prism above a polychrome abstract-design painting in miniature by Cornault, mounted by Després within a silver and black lacquer surround, flanked by stepped and incised chevron form shoulders with subtle dark patination. Uniting an intriguing abstract painting with the geometry of interlocking planes and layered strata, this rare ring is powerful work of painterly and sculptural modernism. Product Details: Item #: R-21132 Artist: J Després and E Cornault Country: France Circa: 1930 Size: 6.75 (this ring can be sized; please contact the gallery for further information) Materials: Glace peinte/Reverse-painted crystal; Black lacquer; Silver Signed: "J. Desprès", "JD" maker's mark, French guarantee stamp for silver. Provenance: Given by the artist to his niece, and by descent in her family. Exhibition History: "Étienne Cournault (1891-1948)" at Musées de la Cour d’Or à Metz, 25 June to 24 October 1994. This ring was presented as number 94 in the exhibition catalogue. Literature: This ring appears in "Jean Després; Jeweller, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age", Thames & Hudson, 2009, by Melissa Gabardi, on p. 197. Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: This important ring is one of a small group of “Bijoux-Glaces” or “Mirror Jewels”. These jewels represent the collaboration between two French Modernist artists, Étienne Cournault (1891-1948) and Jean Després (1889-1980). Cournault was from Lorraine, and had been educated at L’Ecole de Nancy in graphic and applied arts. He was active in Paris as a painter, draughtsman, and print maker in the 1920s. Moreover, he was the premier practitioner of the rarified technique of reverse painting on crystal, which he elevated from a traditional decorative art by creating intriguing miniature paintings of Surrealist and Cubist inspiration. Cournault met Després, an accomplished silversmith who moved in the circle of Modligiani, de Chirico, Braque and Signac, when Jacques Doucet commissioned the artists to complete an ornate metal table...