Art Deco Jean Painlevé Bakelite Seahorse Bangle

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Art Deco Jean Painlevé Bakelite Seahorse Bangle

$450.00

Description

DATE: Art Deco, c.1935

An especially cool Jean Painlevé bangle dating from the Art Deco period, circa 1935. Jean Painlevé, a French film maker with an interest in biology. Painlevé’s breakthrough came in 1935, with his film "L’Hippocampe" or The Seahorse. In the wave of his success, in 1936, Painlevé and his wife commissioned a range of seahorse jewellery. This piece, a yellow metal torque bangle, topped with bakelite and two gold coloured seahorses. It's not your typical shaped bangle, but is more oval shaped, with two "cylinders" of bakelite to slip your wrist through.

STONES

Bakelite

MEASUREMENTS

Width of bangle: 1.8cm

Cylinders: 3.4cm

Inner circumference: 18cm

WEIGHT

51.4g

MARKS

Stamped JHP

CONDITION

Very good, light wear commensurate with age