A silver gilt and enamelled study of a Japanese boy
painting a screen.
C.1889. Collection Boucheron, Photo Alain
Lantz
Japonisme: From Falize to Fabergé,
the Goldsmith and Japan.
A Loan Exhibition
This exhibition, spanning the fifty years from 1867 to 1917, is the first devoted to the influence of Japanese works of art
on Western jewellers and goldsmiths including Falize, Boucheron, Fouquet, Gaillard, Vever, Lalique, Cartier, Tiffany,
Gorham, Elkington, Wolfers, and Fabergé. Some 160 jewels, objects and original designs assembled from public and
private collections will be shown alongside photographs of related Japanese source material. Amongst the
loans are a centrepiece by Boucheron featuring a Japanese boy painting a screen, a diamond-set corsage ornament
by Vever composed of a spray of cherry blossom measuring 29 cm, a winter landscape pendant by Lalique framed by
ice-laden conifers, a brooch in the form of a chrysanthemum set with Mississippi pearls by Tiffany,
and a hardstone Japanese flower study poised on a miniature table by Fabergé.
10th-20th May 2011, 11am to 5pm (closed Sunday) at Wartski,
14 Grafton Street, London W1S 4DE.
Tel. 0207 493 1141,
email wartski@wartski.com.
Admission £8 including catalogue in aid of The Prince’s Trust.
A diamond set corsage ornament in the form of cherry
blossom by Vever, 29 cm long. c.1900.
Private collection, Photograph courtesy of
Sotheby’s
A brooch in the form of a chrysanthemum set with Mississippi pearls by Tiffany, c.1904.
Two toads carved from nephrite and bowenite by
Fabergé
