Antique 14ct Gold Lorgnette with Guilloche Design
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Guilloche - A form of classical decoration consisting of a repeating ornament of interlacing curved bands, sometimes forming circles, and further decorated with rosettes or other flower forms.
The name is derived from the inventor, French engineer Guillot, who invented a mechanical method of inscribing fine repeating patterns on to metallic surfaces.
On enamelled items with guilloche decoration, the surface is firstly engraved with the repeating pattern, and then covered with several layers of enamel, each of which is fired.
Where the item has not been enamelled the form of decoration is usually called "engine turned".
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
A fourteen carat gold antique folding Lorgnette, 19th century, French, hallmarked, having a strong frame and spring mechanism in working order, with a bright cut square form tapering handle to a circular terminal; signed So to the nosepiece with hallmarks.
Silver grape scissors, mark of Faberge, with the Imperial Warrant, Moscow, c. 1910, in the neoclassical taste, finely decorated with floral and ribbon-tied reeded motifs, hallmarked, 84 standard, length 14.5 cm approx. Weight 87 grams
A 1915 magnifying glass, diameter loupe 5 cm.