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French Parure De Poupee
This gorgeous pale blue pearl and gold jewelry "set", circa 1800's, is called a "parure". It is a matching jewelry ensemble for the most fashionable, wealthiest and elegant ladies of the time. The French word "parure" means adornment, and it was considered to be a very integral and elitist addition to a woman's wardrobe, IF her husband could afford it!
An interesting fact concerning these "suites", was that after a few years, if the lady found the jewelry in need of an update, the pieces were taken back to the artisans where first purchased, and there they could be re-made into more currently fashionable looking pieces. Gentleman and their ladies competed to obtain the most sought after jewelers to create the finest most phenomenal pieces in an effort to out-do each other in their social circles.
It is said that Napolean himself gifted Josephine with several of these luxurious jewelry parures, to be worn if not flaunted, at the most elegant functions and parties, and then continued to do the same with wife number two, Marie-Louise.
Now THIS matching jewelry ensembles made specifically for French dolls, (measuring 5" H.x4"w.) to imitate those made for the ladies of the time, is called a "parure de poupee". They are extremely rare, and obviously in their rarest and most desirable form when discovered in THIS manner-------still tied into it’s original gorgeous box!! Even the painting on the box itself is marvelous and worthy of displaying separately. As you can see, on the painting on the cover of the box, she is WEARING the necklace contained inside the box!
Tucked inside the box, amazingly, is an EARLY advertisement of the "parure de poupee" in French, secured to a heavy black "card". This wonderfully superb pristine package is a remarkable sustainable piece of doll fashion history of museum quality.
UNBELIEVABLY WONDERFUL!
Price: $1,275
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