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FAB 1950's Brass & Bakelite PAINLEVE seahorse BRACELET

$350.00
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Color
Red
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FAB 1950's Brass & Bakelite PAINLEVE seahorse BRACELET










VINTAGE 1950's RED TEA BAKELITE & BRASS LINK BRACELET
SEAHORSE DESIGN - JEAN PAINLEVE's CREATION

A true vintage mid XXth century red tea Bakelite & brass bracelet. Link bracelet made of gilded brass frame topped with very nice square piece of red tea Bakelite ornate with brass seahorse figurine. Closing clasp in perfect working condition, stamped "SGDG", (which is an equivalent of "patented").
Designed by Jean Painleve in the 1950's and sold in only one store, located in Paris. The passion for those beautiful jewels lasted until the mid 1960's. The bracelet is in very good to excellent condition. Only minor traces of worn, no crack, no chip, no traces of dryness.
For information, for those who know and for those who don't....those beautiful pieces of jewelry were equally made with Galalith or with Bakelite...

Origin : France circa 1950's.

Dimensions :  7" total length (17,5 cm) - each piece = 1" 5/16 x 15/16 (3,3 x 2,4 cm). Fit perfectly an average 6" 1/2 wrist.

About the designer: Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 - 2 July 1989) was a film director, actor, translator, animator, critic and theorist. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France, Paul Painleve (1863-1933).

Painleve first came to the cinema as an actor and as an assistant. Later, he would appear as "chief ant handler" in Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, 1928. Soon, he was shooting his own films, starting with L'œuf d'épinoche : de la fécondation à l'éclosion, 1927.

In order to shoot scenes underwater, Painleve encased his camera in a custom designed waterproof box, fitted with a glass plate, which allowed the camera’s lens to reach thru.

Overall, Jean Painleve directed more than two hundred science and nature films

Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painleve managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fan-worms as endowed with human traits — the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painleve single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the "scientific-poetic cinema".

Related to his passion for the sea and its population, he soon starts designing jewelry, fabric and all sorts of accessories with sea themes. His wife, Genevieve HAMON, creates the design with the sea horses for their Trade Mark «JHP». A store is open in the Printemps Department Store in Paris: “HIPPOCAMPE” (seahorse). (This store will remain open during all the 50-60’s period).


 

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On Jun-30-12 at 19:27:20 PDT, seller added the following information:

 

 
FAB 1950's Brass amp Bakelite PAINLEVE seahorse BRACELET VINTAGE 1950's RED TEA BAKELITE amp BRASS LINK BRACELETSEAHORSE DESIGN JEAN PAINLEVE's CREATION A true vintage mid XXth century red tea Bak...

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Priced $350.00. Categorized under Jewelry & Watches >> Vintage & Antique Jewelry >> Costume >> Bakelite, Vintage Plastics >> Bracelets. Condition: Used, Gender: Female, Color: Red, Designer Unsigned: Other. FAB 1950's Bras amp Bakelite PAINLEVE seahorse BRACELET VINTAGE 1950's RED TEA BAKELITE amp BRAS LINK BRACELETSEAHORSE DESIGN JEAN PAINLEVE's CREATION A true vintage mid Xth century red tea Bak.