German Art Nouveau

Antique Collar Brooch made off Gold with Pearl & Glass Pastes, Probably Pforzheim, ca. 1900


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Antique Collar Brooch made off Gold with Pearl & Glass Pastes, Probably Pforzheim, ca. 1900
Antique Collar Brooch made off Gold with Pearl & Glass Pastes, Probably Pforzheim, ca. 1900
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Brooches belonged to the indispensable pieces of jewellery until not so long ago: no lady would have gone out of the house around 1950 without a brooch, because without a brooch the clothes were not complete. How and where the brooch was worn on the clothes, changed following the respective fashions. In the years around 1900 was popular the so-called "collar brooch", which were worn about the height of the top button on high closed garments frontally on the blouse. Such a collar brooch from the heyday of Art Nouveau of the years around 1900 is the present specimen. The piece of jewellery made of gold is designed as an elegant composition with graphic features and stylized laurel branches, which do not follow the French floral style, but represent the German variety of the style with its preference for symmetry. The surface of the brooch shines in a rich gold tone due to fire gilding and features a natural pearl and two red glass pastes as trim. The brooch was created in the years around 1900 and is a typical German manufactory work, as they were made mainly in the city of Pforzheim. A time-typical and beautiful piece of jewellery of the German Art Nouveau.
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The years around 1900: luxury and pure joie de vivre had been elevated to the ideal of the first decades of the 20th century: The new forms of Art Nouveau enriched art and the decorative arts with decorative forms never seen before. In the Europe of those years, centers quickly emerged, each of whose expression of the new style took a different path. While in France the School of Nancy led the way and floral motifs were transformed into spectacular new art forms, in Vienna the Wiener Werkstätte emerged with a stricter conception of ornamentation and created total works of art that were to influence almost every area of human life.
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Antique Collar Brooch made off Gold with Pearl & Glass Pastes, Probably Pforzheim, ca. 1900
German Art Nouveau
€ 298.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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