FREDERIC RUDOLPHI Silver chatelaine, featuring a bust figure carved in the round within enameled arcatures embellished with small pearls, holding 5 small metal or silver charms, one of which is set with a seal. Master stamp. French work, mid-19th century. Height: 16cm approx. Gross weight: 76.5g (missing enamel) A middle 19th century Frédéric Rudolphi chatelaine Frédéric-Jules Rudolphi, along with Morel and Wiese, represents the Romantic Historicist movement in France. Rudolphi adopted neo-Gothic or neo-Renaissance motifs in his vocabulary. The Belle Epoque of French jewellery 1850-1910, London 1989, p. 92-93