Plume de Paon or Hortensia
Boucheron · Chaumet
Plume de Paon
A peacock feather drawn barb by barb in pavé, its eye marked by a single larger diamond, curling round the finger or falling from a chain.
Chaumet's founder Marie-Étienne Nitot worked for Napoleon and Joséphine, so the Empress's garden at Malmaison was a natural source when Claire Dévé-Rakoff chose the hydrangea for high jewelry in autumn 2013: Hortensia florets massed into pompoms of pink opal, angel-skin coral, rubies and sapphires. Boucheron's Plume de Paon is a nineteenth-century idea, dated to 1860 and credited to Frédéric Boucheron and Paul Legrand, its barbs in pavé and its eye a single larger diamond.
| Fact | Plume de Paon | Hortensia |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1860 | 2013 |
| Designer | Frédéric Boucheron and Paul Legrand | Claire Dévé-Rakoff |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond | rose gold, white gold, yellow gold, diamond, opal, sapphire, ruby, coral, tourmaline, mother-of-pearl |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €6,950 | Not published |
| Top of line | €218,000 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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