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Salt water cultured pearl gold diamonds emeralds necklace - 1960s, signed FRANCO CANNILLA (1911- 1984)

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Estimations: 5 000 - 7 000 EUR
18k white gold clasp, brilliant-cut diamonds totalling approximately 0.30 ct and emeralds.
Signed "CANNILLA" and hallmarked "750" and "22 Roma".
The artist's jewellery production can be placed within the research strand of artist's jewellery developed in Italy especially after the Second World War, thanks to a number of jewellers including Mario Masenza (Rome, 1913-1985) and the brothers Danilo (Rome, 1934-1995) and Massimo Fumanti (Rome, 1936) in Rome and Giancarlo Montebello (Milan, 1941) in Milan.
In post-World War II Rome, Masenza opened the doors of his jewellery shop in Via del Corso to the artists of the time, who could translate their poetics into formal declinations of rare executive prestige. Mazenza conceived the idea, completely unprecedented for the Italian panorama, of bringing the world of jewellery together with the world of art, thus involving contemporary artists. In particular, he used Dederico Gherardi's goldsmith's workshop to make the jewellery of sculptors such as Franco Cannilla.
An artist born in Caltagirone on 13 February 1911, he died in Rome at the end of 1984, he attended the local ceramics school; his language approached a progressive abstraction of the plastic form, concretised in the 1950s in a search for proportional harmony through the use of the module, for the creation of concrete art objects in relation also to new industrial materials.
Cannilla's goldsmith production began in the late 1940s and saw both abstract motifs and more concrete and symbolic themes represented, such as figurative jewellery with biblical repertoire and female figures. In the 1960s, he experimented with an abstract yet tension-rich language, which in the jewellery is translated into developments and interweaving of filaments sprinkled with gems and diamonds.
The double strand of pearls ends with a clasp characterised by a design with soft geometries, in which three diamonds are set in the centre and groups of small emeralds at the ends.
As a whole, the design follows a sinus movement, marked by the repetition of the module echoing an almond alternating with rigid elements; this play of alternations, of solids and voids, gives rhythm and movement to the composition.
Length x width: 3.7 x 2.8 cm. Weight approx. 26 g
Item condition grading: ***** excellent.
Accompanied by Giorgio Tempesti's expertise.
Auction
AUCTION 244 - JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES, IVORIES AND CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS
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Date
06 December 2022 CET/Rome
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2 400 EUR
Estimations
5 000 - 7 000 EUR
Hammer price
3 084 EUR
Hammer price without Byuer's Premium
2 400 EUR
Overbid
129%
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AUCTION 244 - JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES, IVORIES AND CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS
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