Acquired directly from the artist

Louisa Guinness Gallery, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Madeleine Chapsal, Claude Lalanne: Bijoux, Sacs-Bijoux et la Montre-Oignon, Artcurial, Par♏is, 1996, 'Collerette' for♌ similar form in silver

Paola Stroppiana, Scultura Aurea, Gioielli d'Artista per un nuovo Rinascimento, Gli Ori, Pistoia, 2019, p. 115

Sculpture to Wear: An Introduction to Artist Jewellery, Louisa Guinness Gallery a🧔nd Sotheby's, London, 2021, p. 29

In works like Collier Collerette, Lalanne's mastery of electroplating sits center stage. Through this method she transformed organic material into copper by running it through a bath of copper sul🍃phate. Working intuitivไely, she then joined each piece together and heated them to obtain her signature pinkish hue, a method she utilized until her death in 2019.

This gently-ruffled collar with hanging seed-pods solidified in an immovable material is a perfect example of Lalanne's interest in nature and how it might be subverted to adorn the🌺 body.