Butterfly necklace, beauty and poetry
Combining beauty, femininity and poetry, butterflies could not fail to inspire jewellers. There is a jeweler who excels in the art of declining the butterfly in all their forms it is Van Cleef and Arpels. You will find on this page some pictures of these wonderful jewels of Van cleef and Arpels.
“Il ressemble au désir, qui jamais ne se pose,
Et sans se satisfaire, effleurant toute chose,
Retourne enfin au ciel chercher la volupté!”
Lamartine – extract
Lucky Alhambra butterfly necklace in gold and mother of pearl, 2014 collection
An almost inexhaustible source of inspiration
There are about two hundred thousand species of butterflies, which means that their dresses and designs are varied. Gold, white gold for the contours, sapphires, turquoise and aquamarine for the blues, rubies for the reds and emeralds for the greens, black spinels, the palette of colors of gemstones is also very wide. On some butterfly jewels, the master jeweler also uses lacquer enhanced by the queen of stones: the diamond to bring the ultimate brilliance to his creations of sumptuous and brilliant butterflies.
Pink and purple sapphire butterfly jewelry
Jewelry with the sweet name of butterflies
What knowledge and what mastery it took to create so many pieces as beautiful as rare. One wonders if in some cases a butterfly might not fall in love with its jewellery image. Vanessa, Brocatelle d’or, Bloomfidia or Aliris, the butterfly jewels presented here sometimes bear the name of their admirable muses.
Diamond and sapphire lacquer butterfly
Original and rare jewellery.
If the real butterfly is ephemeral, it must multiply to last, it is not the case of these original jewels which are often unique models whose preciousness guarantees the conservation by their happy owners.
Yellow gold and diamonds butterfly necklace – 2014 collection
Three types of jewelry and butterfly necklace
There are three families of butterfly jewelry at Van Cleef & Arpels:
– the “realistic” butterfly jewels which are largely inspired by real butterflies
– stylized butterfly jewellery or jewellery inspired by the imagination without a direct link to nature.
– jewels inspired by psyche goddess of Greek mythology represented by a woman’s body with a pair offenders
Sapphire, aquamarine and diamond butterfly brooch
Bbloomfildia butterfly jewelry by Van Cleef and Arpels
Butterfly jewel by Van Cleef and Arpels
This article was published by the PINGTIPONG Bijoux team
