Sterling Silver Very Fine Guilloche Or Rose Turning Period Hair Brush. Hallmarked Extremely Fine

Extremely fine rose turned enamel on silver with gold highlights within the enamel surface. Hallmarked ‘Sterling with a crown, letter, and an animal. Unknown maker but of very high quality. Wooden base with firm bristles. Slight porcelain damage at the ends (see photos) but otherwise a very finely detailed painting, design, and craftmanship. The set would have been spectacular! 7 inches long, 2.25 inches wide, and 1.5 inches tall. A gem!
Guilloché enameling examples can be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Guilloché; or guilloche also known as ‘rose turning’ is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate, and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name. Engine turning machines may include the rose engine lathe and the straight-line engine. This mechanical technique improved more time-consuming designs achieved by hand and allowed for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of line, as well as greater speed.
The term guilloche is also used more generally for repetitive architectural patterns of intersecting or overlapping spirals or other shapes, as used in the Ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome and neo-classical architecture, and Early Medieval interlace decoration in Anglo-Saxon art and elsewhere. Medieval Cosmatesque stone inlay designs with two ribbons winding around a series of regular central points are very often called guilloche. These central points are often blank, but may contain a figure, such as a rose.[1] These senses are a back-formation from the engraving Guilloché, so called because the architectural motifs resemble the designs produced by later Guilloché techniques.

Notes: Some damage at corners, see photos. Extremely fine otherwise.

$65 - $85

7" x 2.25" x 1.5"

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Richard Gabriel | (781) 883-6639 | gabriel@calixbooks.com

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