{"product_id":"french-art-nouveau-gold-snake-tie-pin-with-green-paste","title":"French Art Nouveau Gold Snake Tie Pin with Green Paste","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderfully characterful French Art Nouveau snake stick pin, dating to circa 1900 and attributed through its marks to the Parisian firm J. Delion \u0026amp; Fils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pin is designed as a sinuous snake twisting itself into a series of elegant loops, its head and body beautifully engraved with fine scale-like detailing. A small faceted green paste stone is set into the head, providing a vivid flash of colour against the warm gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fluid, curling lines are wonderfully characteristic of Art Nouveau jewellery, when designers looked increasingly to the natural world for inspiration. Snakes were particularly popular, their endlessly coiling forms perfectly suited to the movement and asymmetry of the period. Long associated with eternity, renewal and enduring affection, the snake was both highly symbolic and wonderfully decorative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pin is marked FIN, a trade mark associated with the Parisian jewellery firm J. Delion \u0026amp; Fils, together with a doublé mark. Based at 2 rue de Franche-Comté in Paris, Delion specialised in jewellery made in gold, silver and gold doublé, and exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. The firm had already received medals at Amsterdam in 1883 and Paris in 1889, placing this charming little jewel within the thriving world of late 19th- and early 20th-century Parisian jewellery manufacture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoublé refers to a substantial layer of gold bonded over another metal rather than solid gold, a technique used to create jewellery with the richness and appearance of gold while remaining more accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA delightful little piece of French Art Nouveau design, full of movement, symbolism and personality and all the more appealing for the story revealed by its tiny marks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parkin and Gerrish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57612271944053,"sku":"196M","price":375.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3428\/6475\/files\/DSC_0568_973bc81d-0357-4c50-9ace-26128d7474cf.jpg?v=1790550398","url":"https:\/\/parkinandgerrish.com\/en-nz\/products\/french-art-nouveau-gold-snake-tie-pin-with-green-paste","provider":"Parkin and Gerrish","version":"1.0","type":"link"}