{"id":7998,"date":"2023-09-09T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2023-09-12T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T06:45:23","slug":"van-cleef-arpels-pendant-circa-1950-pre-alhambra-by-georges-lenfant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/van-cleef-arpels-pendant-circa-1950-pre-alhambra-by-georges-lenfant\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Cleef &#038; Arpels pendant circa 1950, pre-Alhambra, by Georges Lenfant."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Type of jewelry: Signed jewelry<br> Period: Around 1950<br> Origin: French work from the house of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels by Georges Lenfant (Hallmark: initials GL accompanied by a playing die and a bird&rsquo;s wing).<br> Metal: Gold 750\/1000 (18 k)<br> Total weight (gross): 9.50 grams<br> Dimensions (diameter): 2.8 cm<br> Nature of stones: Brilliant diamonds<br> State of conservation: Very good state of conservation<br> History:<br> As Nicholas Foulkes points out in the book \u201cAlhambra: Van Cleef &amp; Arpels\u201d: The Alhambra pendant of the late 1960s was not a beginning but a step in a process of evolution\u2026 Indeed, the designs of the pieces in the shape of four-leaf clovers appeared in the 1920s (see illustration) at Van Cleef &amp; Arpels. Jacques Arpels picked four-leaf clovers in the garden of his house to offer them to his colleagues as good luck charms.<br> This vintage pendant (circa 1950) by Georges Lenfant for Van Cleef &amp; Arpels is one of the rare testimonies of this creative process.<br> Illustration (drawing): book \u201cAlhambra: Van Cleef &amp; Arpels\u201d by Nicholas Foulkes (EXB, 2018).<br> Bibliographic references: Foulkes, Nicholas. Alhambra: Van Cleef &amp; Arpels. EXB, 2018.<br> Reference: 23 073 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of jewelry: Signed jewelry Period: Around 1950 Origin: French work from the house of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels by Georges Lenfant (Hallmark: initials GL accompanied by a playing die and a bird&rsquo;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1950-1960","category-catalogue","category-signed-jewellery","category-spindles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maison-riondet.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}