An Art Nouveau gold pendant with matching clips

An Art Nouveau gold pendant with matching clips, c.1895, the pendant collet set with green stones, rose diamonds and a Mississippi pearl, suspending a further pearl, (with French eagle head mark and an indistinct partial makers punch to pendant loop) the clips, similarly set with mother of pearl centres, with an additional pair of hinged brooch fittings enabling the pair of smaller jewels to be worn as hair ornaments or more conventionally brooches, (French marks). In a red leather fitted case by Falize, 6 Rue d'Antin, Paris. The firm were at this address from 1882 until 1911. Possibly by Lucien Falize, son of Alexis, a creative tour de force in the late 19th century who championed nature as the ultimate inspiration, becoming in the process one of the acknowledged precursors of the Art Nouveau movement. See: Purcell, Katherine,. 'Falize. A Dynasty of Jewelers,' Thames & Hudson, London 1999. p.47, for an illustration of a similar later pendant.