Story
Jewelers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often employed animal motifs for their designs. This was a time for the Symbolists and the artists of Art Nouveau to evoke sensuous and exotic images of the primitive nature of animals.
This pendant of 10k yellow gold is a representational model of the head of a lion. Textural details of fur are masterfully depicted in the frontal image of the King of the Jungle.
With jaws open in a ferocious growl an old European cut diamond of .07 carats (I-J color; SI1-2 clarity) is seen. Hollow, the work is termed repoussé, where metal design are pressed outwork from the reverse in three dimensional relief.
Chain is not included.
