The Beauty Of Nature

Antique Butterfly Brooch From Gold With Color Stones & Pearl, Around 1900

€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Antique Butterfly Brooch From Gold With Color Stones & Pearl, Around 1900

Description

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

Nature was one of the most important sources of inspiration for the artists of Art Nouveau: in the search for a new art, which should bring man, uprooted by industrialization and the big cities, back into harmony with himself and his environment, they turned to natural forms and created from them their very own, previously unseen designs. Not only plants, but also animals and insects populated these designs: dragonflies, butterflies, snakes. This brooch was created in those years and in view of the new design principles of Art Nouveau. Butterfly brooches had already existed in the last decades of the 19th century. However, they were often richly decorated with precious stones and diamonds. Here, however, the focus is on the line, the beauty of nature. Thus, the piece remains wearable even during the day, and dazzles not by exuberant preciousness, but by the beauty of its design. A so-called Antillean pearl forms the body. This term was used in the jewellery trade at the turn of the century to describe pearls that were not actually pearls at all, but were cut from the shell of marine trochus and turbo snails. Thus, they are sections of nacre, which, however, have the luster and luster of real pearls. Their irregular shape, created by nature, is completely in line with the philosophy of Art Nouveau. The gold wings are also artfully designed and naturalistically structured. The delicate openwork creates a dynamic, light impression. A wonderfully preserved piece of jewellery typical of the period, which, considering its workmanship and design language, was probably created in Germany.

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The Beauty Of Nature

€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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