Yellow gold ring set with an octagonal emerald weighing 4 carats, the sides embellished by round-cut diamonds.
Circa 1980.
Accompanied by a GCS certificate : Colombia, Minor oil.
Reference :
- Jean Vendome, Joailler de la Pierre, Giovanni Dotoli
- Jean Vendome, Les voyages précieux d'un créateur, Marlene Cregut-Ledue
- Jean Vendome, Sophie Lefevre
- www.beauxarts.com/jean-vendome-lecole-school-of-jewelry-arts/
Exhibition :
- L'Ecole de Van Cleef & Arpels - 2020
Jean Vendome, the pioneer of Modern Jewellery
Born in 1930 in France, Jean Tuddarian was a gifted child. As a future jeweller, he will assume the name 'Vendome'.
From his earliest aged Jean took drawing lessons and as a teenager he received his first prize by the City of Paris. After his first lessons of gemmology, he worked as an apprentice for his uncle Der. Jean opened his first workshop in Paris at 2,rue de feutrier, in the 18th arrondissement.
As an anecdocte, the well-know poet Jean Cocteau passed in front his workshop and asked him to transform his gold nugget in a piece of jewellery. Therefore, Jean created a pair of cufflinks with baroque form by sand-blading the gold.
Jean wanted to serve the stones without betraying them : 'Jewellery is an art, not a consumer product.'
Over the sixty-seven years of his career, Jean Vendome invented the modern jewel by demonstrating an infinite respect for minerals and sublimating materials. He has desired to capture the beauty of nature by breaking away from the focus of stone quality.
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