Marie Christine Pavone Broche Lapin Toby – Toby Bunny – Ivory with caramel details – faces right when worn Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Lapin Toby – Toby Bunny – Orange Chiné with apricot detail and rainbow glass eye. Faces LEFT when worn Materials: Galalith...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Lapin Toby – Toby Bunny – Orange Chiné with apricot detail and rainbow glass eye. Faces RIGTH when worn Materials: Galalith...
Marie Christine Pavone Toucan – Yellow/orange ombre on green leaves Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 7.8cm high x 11cm wide Each piece is signed...
Marie Christine Pavone Toucan – Orange on green leaves Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 7.8cm high x 11cm wide Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’...
Marie Christine Pavone Toucan – violet on green leaves Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 7.8cm high x 11cm wide Each piece is signed ‘Pavone’...
Marie Christine Pavone Broche Tourterelle (Turtle Dove) Deep red (Carmin) with hand painted details Materials: Galalith / Hand Painted approx 6.5 x 5.5cm Each piece...
Marie Christine Pavone Twisty Duck: Red body, Yellow wings, green feet, amber glass eye, painted orange beak and black cotton legs. Materials: Galalith / Hand...
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