
Appraisal: Lucien Hirtz Enamel & Gold Brooch, ca. 1910
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Appraisal: Lucien Hirtz Enamel & Gold Brooch, ca. 1910
Check out Sarah Churgin's appraisal of a Lucien Hirtz enamel & gold brooch, ca. 1910, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Lucien Hirtz Enamel & Gold Brooch, ca. 1910
Clip: Season 28 Episode 2 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Sarah Churgin's appraisal of a Lucien Hirtz enamel & gold brooch, ca. 1910, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: (laughs) I love Art Nouveau.
And when my daughter was born, my husband's grandmother gave me this pin.
APPRAISER: How old is she now?
GUEST: Oh, she's 24.
I've already promised her, when she gets married and has a child, that this will go to her.
APPRAISER: When this came to the table, I thought to myself, "Well, that's a heck of a piece of Art Nouveau jewelry."
European Art Nouveau jewelry.
And, specifically, it looks like French Art Nouveau jewelry.
We do have French marks on it.
You can see a little s, half-stroke eagle head on the top of the pin...
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: ...along the pin stem.
And every separable part on this has a French eagle mark.
We'll find it on the C-clasp.
GUEST: Gotcha.
APPRAISER: That's the French mark for 18-karat gold.
And the artist has signed the piece in the counter enamel.
And his name is Lucien Hirtz.
GUEST: Hirtz.
APPRAISER: He's seminal in the use of enameling and decorations...
GUEST: Gotcha.
APPRAISER: ...in the world of French Art Nouveau jewelry.
GUEST: Gotcha.
APPRAISER: And French jewelry.
Hirtz is born in 1864.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And at the age of 21, he became a resident designer for Falize.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: Falize is one of the most important enamelists of French Art Nouveau jewelry.
We have portraits of women here and this floral-carved gold.
He was multitalented.
He could work in classical forms, he could work with insects, he can work in Japanism.
He was very well-respected in his time.
He won the gold medal...
GUEST: Ooh.
APPRAISER: ...at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900.
GUEST: Wow, that's amazing.
(laughs) APPRAISER: Big time.
He joined Boucheron in 1893, and he was given the job of doing some of their most important commission work.
He was the man.
GUEST: He was the cat's meow.
(laughing) APPRAISER: He was the cat's meow.
There is a maker mark on it...
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: ...sort of half-struck.
It's in a diamond shape on the side of the brooch.
And I really can't make it out.
He did similar work for Falize and Boucheron.
GUEST: Gotcha.
APPRAISER: A brooch like this, by him, circa 1906 to around 1915...
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: ...in my opinion, is worth, at retail, $20,000 to $30,000.
GUEST: You're kidding.
APPRAISER: Not kidding.
However... (laughs): GUEST: That's crazy.
APPRAISER: However, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris...
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: ...has a larger example.
It's called La Gaité.
And this is a very close variation of that portrait in miniature.
It's stellar.
And this is a wearable portional miniature of that piece.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
Now that we know that, I would place a retail value on this piece of between $30,000 and $40,000.
GUEST: Wow.
(laughs) I was not expecting that.
I, I thought it would be, you know, maybe $1,000 or $2,000.
Wow.
(laughing) I'm so shocked.
That's amazing-- oh, wow.
(laughing) I'm sorry.
(both laugh) GUEST: That was not at all what I was expecting.
(laughing)
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