1940s
‘The Twenty Arrondissements of Paris’ bracelet in gilded bronze, with oval links holding twenty medallions illustrating the history of the arrondissements of Paris in relief
1st: Venus de Milo (Louvre), 2nd: Business (Stock Exchange), 3rd: Archives, 4th: Heart of Paris, 5th: Celebrities (Académie Française), 6th: Traditions (Panthéon), 7th: Glories (Invalides, Eiffel Tower), 8th: Place de l'Etoile, 9th: Gare Saint-Lazare, 10th: Gare de l'Est, 11th: République, Nation, 12th: Bercy, 13th: Gobelins, 14th: Parcours pour roues, 15th: Foire de Paris, 16th: Palais de Chaillot, 17th: La Fourche, 18th: Sacré-Cœur, 19th: La Villette (Les abattoirs) and 20th: Requiescat in pace (Père Lachaise)
Signed LV on an additional medallion decorated with hands, each medallion engraved with ‘BR’
Length: 18.5 cm
Bibliography:
- Line Vautrin, ‘Rebus’, Editions Le Promeneur, Paris, 1994, a drawing of models nos. 35 to 39
- Line Vautrin, ‘Poesie in Metall, Anne Bokelberg collection’, exhibition catalogue, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 16 April-29 June 2003, a similar model reproduced on p. 129 under ref. 102.
