Antique Cloverleaf Pendant with Natural Pearls & Diamonds in Gold, c. 1890 & Later

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Antique Cloverleaf Pendant with Natural Pearls & Diamonds in Gold, c. 1890 & Later

€ 4,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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

Clover is a plant that is associated with numerous positive qualities. In English, for example, one says "to live in clover" to express that one leads a carefree life full of happiness and wealth. Medieval love poetry also made the "green clover" a place of love encounters. Clover also has a romantic component in the Victorian language of flowers: Anna Burke's The Illustrated Language of Flowers from 1856 lists the white clover under the meaning "Think of me". This piece of jewellery in the shape of a clover was created by a stroke of luck. In addition to sparkling diamonds, three extraordinary natural pearls are set in warm, shimmering red gold. The pearls are of very good quality, very round and with a perfect surface, shimmering in three finely graduated shades: one pearl is creamy white, one is slightly gray and one is a shimmering violet. Each of the three pearls had to be found and retrieved by divers on the seabed with great effort (and a good dose of luck!). The preciousness of the pearls is underlined by the old European cut diamonds with a total weight of 3.85 carats, as well as the high-carat gold from which the pieces of jewellery were made. Pieces of jewellery like this one, in clover leaf form with precious trimmings, were created in large numbers in the late 19th century. Shown here is an excerpt from a catalog of the London jewelry house Mappin & Webb from 1900, which shows a very similar but less precious cloverleaf brooch at the bottom left. However, the setting of the pieces varied greatly. We find examples in the literature with diamonds, opals and colored stones - but a brooch set with such a precious selection of natural pearls is a real exception. The fact that comparable cloverleaf brooches were in the possession of Empress Sisi of Austria, which are now kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, see here, shows how special the setting of this jewellery was at the time of its creation. The shamrock was probably originally created as a brooch. Later, a loop was added to it and since then it can be worn as a pendant. We have selected the matching red gold chain to go with the pendant. An independent expert opinion has confirmed the quality of the materials.

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€ 4,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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