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Antique Art Deco Brooch With Half Carat Diamond Set in White Gold, ca. 1930

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Antique Art Deco Brooch With Half Carat Diamond Set in White Gold, ca. 1930

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

With the end of the First World War, classical modernism had finally dawned - the "long 19th century" was over. Contemporaries consciously imagined themselves in a new, more modern era. The dresses showed leg, the corset had given way to loose cuts, the long hair was radically cut off - because now one wore bob. Of course, the jewellery also had to correspond to this feeling of the times, because: "The jewellery must also depend on the type of dress, and it takes a particularly sure and cultivated taste, especially today, not to commit any stylistic inconsistencies in this direction". This is what the interested reader could read in the magazine "Die Dame" in 1925. The first owner of this modern brooch probably once proved to have safe and cultivated taste. It is designed as an elongated rectangle and its outline is quite simple, in order to focus attention entirely on the filigree workmanship. In the center is a large old-cut diamond of about half a carat. Serrated ornaments, wave patterns, even hidden flowers have been hand-sawn into the metal. The result is a design that is quite typical of the Art Deco style that prevailed in the Weimar Republic. Incidentally, the materiality of the brooch is also quite modern: it is made of white gold, which had only been patented in Germany in 1912. At that time it had caused a great sensation. The early, slightly yellowish white gold is usually topped with a layer of platinum, and we see this here as well. So not only the design and diamond cut, but also the combination of materials reveal the age of this beautiful brooch.

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