René Lalique, Pansy, Paris, around 1900. Gold, enamel, diamonds, baroque pearl, 9.0 x 6.4 cm. Inv 88/321. Gift of the Allianz insurance company, Munich, 1988. Hall 55. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

n the jewelry art of the Art Nouveau motif of pansies is relatively common. The French word "pensée" gives this flower the meaningful pictorial importance of commemoration and remembrance.René Lalique, the preeminent jewelry artists of his time, put the pansy in this trailer as a wilting flower with partially folded leaf margins are and at the same time gave him the form of a colorful jewel of the highest treasure.