Marie Christine Pavone Spiral Cat Long Blue Approx 5.8cm high and 10cm wide Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted Era: New Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’...
Marie Christine Pavone Starry Bear – Leafy Green with Orange star (right facing when worn) When wearing this brooch the bear faces towards your RIGHT...
Marie Christine Pavone Starry Bear – Marbled Red with yellow star (right facing when worn) When wearing this brooch the bear faces towards your RIGHT...
Marie Christine Pavone Starry Bear – Orange with turquoise star (right facing when worn) When wearing this brooch the bear faces towards your RIGHT arm...
Marie Christine Pavone Starry Mouse Teal Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 8x3cm Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’ on the back. Condition: Excellent This is...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Chien Suki- Beige stripes Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6cm high x 8cm across Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’ on...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Chien Suki- Noir (black with black muzzle) Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6cm high x 8cm across Each piece is...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Chien Suki- Praline Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6cm high x 8cm across Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’ on the...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Chien Suki- Blanc (ivory white with black nose) Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6cm high x 8cm across Each piece...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Chien Suki- Violet Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6cm high x 8cm across Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’ on the...
Marie Christine Pavone Swan Brooch (blue tones) Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted 7.5 x 5cm Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’ on the back. Condition: Excellent...
Marie Chrisine Pavone is a French artist who hand makes beautiful brooches from Galalith.
Galalith is one of the oldest plastic materials and was first discovered in 1897 when two German researchers came up with the idea of solidifying milk casein by addition of a small amount of formaldehyde.
After 1900, it was used to manufacture fantasy buttons, toilet accessories, boxes, pens and other accessories
Casein's pure white and extremely fine grain makes galalith an unbeatable material for dyeing in fine colors with a bright final polish. The inclusion of diverse additives produces various effects including stripes and swirls.
Making Pavone brooches is a somewhat complex process to carve the required shapes :
- after preliminary sanding of the raw material, each piece is hand cut (galalith cannot be moulded, and therefore is not a "plastic" material in the proper sense),
Once carved the pieces must be polished and when ready, decorated with lacquer work, and hand painted by the artist.
Each Marie Christine Pavone brooch is an individual work of art and no two pieces are exactly the same. Each piece takes up to three weeks to make and each is signed. You are purchasing a work of art when you purchase a Pavone brooch. The photos in the listings are of the actual brooch your are purchasing