Cuir Roulé

Cuir roulé (from French: cuir = leather, roulé = rolled) is a term to describe the volute shaped ornaments in jewelry from 1835 onwards. Rolled-up leather scrolls were mimicked by repousse work. These scrolls have their origin in ancient Greece where they were used in Ionic Order architecture and were reintroduced as a design element in jewelry around 1835 by the Parisian jeweler Edouard Marchant¹