Jane Hutcheson Fleurs des Siecles Enamel Flower Bouquet in Herend Porcelain Urn, Gorham, Vintage Gilt Metal Florals

In the 18th century, the French porcelain works at Vincennes made bouquets of flowers that would never wilt, a luxury so admired that courtiers filled their rooms with them. Two centuries later, the American designer Jane Hutcheson revived the idea for Gorham, the venerable Providence silversmiths, in a line she called Fleurs des Siècles, or Flowers of the Centuries. Produced from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, every blossom, leaf, and berry was handcrafted and hand-enameled over gold plate, then mounted on flexible gold-plated wire so the arrangement trembles at a touch. Here a lush bouquet of enameled flowers, wild strawberries, and seed pods rises from a Herend porcelain urn, hand-painted in Hungary and raised on gilded paw feet. The effect is pure jewel-box opulence, an everlasting bouquet for a mantel, entry table, or vanity.

Dimensions: 5.5" W (with flowers) X 6" H (with flowers)