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Line Vautrin
'Les Filles de Neptune' (The Daughters of Poseidon) Bracelet
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October 6, 05:44 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 6,000 USD
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Line Vautrin
1913 - 1997
'Les Filles de Neptune' (The Daughters of Poseidon) Bracelet
circa 1945, stamped LINE VAUTRIN on back of closure gilded bronze bracelet with five pictorial panels depicting mythological figures and one panel with Greek inscription identifying the divinities of the sea: Scylla, Glaucus, the Nereids, Tethys, Poseidon, and the Gorgons
Length: 7⅝ by 1⅞ in.; 19.5 by 4.9 cm.
Private Collection, France
Anne Bokelberg, Line Vautrin: Poesie in Metall, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2003, p. 145, no. 115; p. 61 et 147, n. 119, for an example in silver
Laura Silverman, Line Vautrin: 100 Years of Magnitude, Maison Gerard, New York, 2013, p. 13, nos. 30-31 for version as a series of boxes
In classic Vautrin fashion, Classical mythology is on show in this Les Filles de Neptune (The Daughters of Poseidon) Bracelet. The central panel features their father Poseidon, lord of the oceans, while the others each feature his daughters: Scylla, Glaucus, the Nereids, Tethys, and the ferocious Gorgons. 'The entire spectrum of womanhood,’ Vautrin might be cheekily implying. The inscription in Greek at the end of the bracelet helpfully identifies each character — if you can read the language, that is!