Francois-Desire Froment-Meurice (1802- 1855) was influential in pioneering the Gothic, Renaissance and romantic style of jewellery in France from the 1850s.
Balzac named him ‘Mon Benvenuto’ and Victor Hugo dedicated a poem to him. This gold and diamond Renaissance revival brooch left, modelled as a chimera dragon wearing a coronet signed Froment Meurice c.1850, carries French import marks. It has an estimate of £500-700 at Roseberys in London on March 20.