€8,000 - €9,000
AN ART DECO CHRYSOPRASE AND ROCK CRYSTAL BRACELET, FRENCH, CIRCA 1930 Designed as a series of sugarloaf-shaped green chrysoprase cabochons, between openwork rock crystal links, with polished gold connectors, mounted in 18K gold, with maker's mark 'MC' for Maximo Cuesta, French assay marks, length 19cm Lorenzo Marzo (1865–1929) was a Spanish jeweller, who relocated to Paris in the early 1890s and founded his own workshop in 1901. In 1911, he entered a ten-year partnership with Eugène Laillet under the name Marzo & Laillet. Following Lorenzo Marzo’s death in 1929, the business was taken over by his son Rafael Marzo. The maker’s mark registered by Lorenzo Marzo consisted of a pair of pincers flanked by the initials “LM” inside a horizontal lozenge. Later pieces associated with the firm feature the initials “MC” in a similar lozenge, marked with a three-legged rooster. This mark corresponds to Maximo Cuesta, whose registration was active from 1919 to 1936. Cuesta was connected to the family through Rafael Marzo’s marriage to Conchita Cuesta.
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