Dunetz 22K Gold & Cloisonné Brooch-Pendant
Yellow Gold, 22k, Amethyst
$1,449.95
- Maker
- Celiane & Ronald Dunetz
- Era
- Celiane & Ronald Dunetz · 22K & Sterling · One of a kind
- Materials
- Yellow Gold, 22k, Amethyst
- Condition
- Pre-owned - Good
- Provenance
- Sterling and 22K gold carrying superb cloisonné work, set with amethyst — a one-of-a-kind brooch-pendant from the Dunetz studio. The kind of artisan piece that rarely reaches the open market.
On this piece
Cloisonné is one of the most exacting arts in all of jewelry: thin metal walls bent into cells, each one flooded with colored glass and fired until it fuses. Celiane and Ronald Dunetz — studio artisans whose work rarely surfaces — built this one-of-a-kind brooch-pendant in sterling silver and rich 22K gold, filling their cloisonné cells with multicolored glass and accenting the whole with an amethyst cabochon. Turn it over and the artistry continues: the reverse is etched with its own decorative work, signed C.R. Dunetz — the mark of makers who finished the side no one was meant to see. At thirty grams, in gold and silver, it has the heft of something made to be kept. This is what studio jewelry means at its best — not manufactured, but authored, by two hands that treated a brooch as a small painting in glass and metal.