Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-07
NEW ART JEWELRY.
Curious and Very Costly Pieces
 Made by Master Workmen.
Revival ef Wonderful Metal Work of Renaissance Times PoD.larssed by the Paris Expositfon-
 Features of Work.

A new fad in tewelry has slowly been making it's way to favor in recent years, and the Paris exposition brought it into something like popu- larity. Fortunately, the expense of the work and the fact that it appeals to the artistic taste more than to the canons of elegance generally current promises to keep the fashion from be- coming fatally common, says the New York Sum-
 The Salique jswelry l. perhaps the finest example of this new work. which is, after all, old, for H works back to the wonderful metal work of renaissance times and makes the pre- cious metals merely incidental. The exhibition of Rene saliqus's work at the exposition was 6 revelation to the host who had known nothing about him.
 This work has been eagerly sought for in Europe for years past, but his prices are fabulous and he does not sell to dealers. but works only on spe- oial orders. which it may be his whim to accept; so, up to the present time, his jewels have been obtained only by royal personages or other illustrious patrons, and their number is not very great.
 Castellsni, in Rome. has had rspu- tation for work of the same general order as Salique's, although he has achieved nothing to equal the Selique jewels, and a crowd of lesser lights have been following the same path with more or less success.
 Of course, the central idea of this jewelry is beauty and exclusivsnsss of design. The masters of ti craft, like Salique, often make the jewel, what ever it may be, with direct reference to the appearance and personality of the woman who is to wear it, and this opens up an endless vista of suggestive and symbolic possibility.
 Then again the jewel may be made merely to carry out 8 conception in the mind of the artist, without ref erence to the future owner. Rare stones are introduced wherever the design requires their color, but very often the semi-preeious stones an swer the artistic requirements better than the more costly jewels and are used by preference, without thought of the comparative cost.
 If a patron is willing to put a crowns ransom of rubies into sn order and sslique thinks pink topaz or lspis ,asuli accords better with his design, the buyer doesn't get the rubies. with Salique and with many of his followers, because they lend them selves to symbolism and suggestion without detracting from the effect of the metal work and design. One of the most remarkable pieces of this art jewelry ever turned out was al comb in a design of bats flying through the filtered light of moonstones.
 American designers are taking upl The art jewel idea, and a new era of extravagance in jewslry is evidently at hand. Gorgeous tiaras and stom- achers of diamonds will not do now. My lady must have specially designed hbN COCChhAAS JcWCAAy OA "hfSh NhcA~ is no duplicate, which bears the sig nature of 6 master craftsman.
 Several of the New York jewellers brought home quantities of signed jewels In unusual designs. and have sold them rapidly. One ring for . man, labeled The Heart of the Oak" and signed by famous French work man, was a particularly good speei- men. although 1t hadn't a hint of a precious stone about it. The ring wes wrought in semblance of bark, and bore 9 strange, satyrhke head, that at first glance looked merely like the gnarled knot on a limb of tree.
 One Chicago woman has taken up this art jewel craft with immense sue cess, and has orders SO far in advance that she says 1t will be impossible for her to promise anything before 1903,