Plume de Paon or Le Petit Cactus
Boucheron · Mellerio
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.
Le Petit Cactus
The flower of the vanilla cactus, which opens for one night a year, made as a small burst of rose gold stamens around a single stone.
Marie-Antoinette links Le Petit Cactus to Mellerio's oldest history: the queen, the house's first royal client, asked Redouté to paint the vanilla cactus, whose flower opens one night a year. In 2019 Laure-Isabelle Mellerio made it a small burst of rose-gold stamens around a single stone, from €440. Boucheron's Plume de Paon, from €6,950, works at another scale altogether, a pavé peacock feather dated to 1860 that runs the length of a finger.
| Fact | Plume de Paon | Le Petit Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1860 | 2019 |
| Designer | Frédéric Boucheron and Paul Legrand | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €6,950 | €440 |
| Top of line | €218,000 | €4,100 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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