Whiplashed

Antique Art Nouveau Ring with Ruby & Diamonds, Germany ca. 1900


€ 980.00 *
Content 1 piece
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Antique Art Nouveau Ring with Ruby & Diamonds, Germany ca. 1900
Antique Art Nouveau Ring with Ruby & Diamonds, Germany ca. 1900
Description
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The Art Nouveau style, which conquered the world in the years around 1900, wanted to break with old ornaments and find something new. One of the characteristic stylistic elements of this new style was the so-called whiplash ornament: swinging in and out lines that look like flying whips. The nickname came from a wall hanging by Hermann Obrist from 1895, which shows golden embroidered cyclamen on a green-blue ground. It is now in the Munich City Museum, Inv. No. T-49/63, see also our illustration. The lines of this violet were so unusually dynamically curved and abstracted that an enthusiastic review from the modern art magazine Pan said of it: "Like the abrupt, violent coils of string at the crack of a whip, this frenzied movement appears to us." The present ring develops its sweeping ring face from this ornament. Here, a ruby cabochon and two small diamonds are set between whiplash lines modeled in gold. We were able to discover the beautifully preserved ring, typical of the period, in Westphalia. The hallmarks inside the ring band also show that it is a piece of German Art Nouveau jewelry.
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Antique Art Nouveau Ring with Ruby & Diamonds, Germany ca. 1900
Whiplashed
€ 980.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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