Vine Leaves and Forget-Me-Not

Antique Demi-Parure with Shell Cameos in Gold, Austria-Hungary circa 1870


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Antique Demi-Parure with Shell Cameos in Gold, Austria-Hungary circa 1870
Antique Demi-Parure with Shell Cameos in Gold, Austria-Hungary circa 1870
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Fringes of gold, long earrings, shell cameos, a round brooch, vine leaves and wild maenads - all these striking fashions of the years around 1870 are combined in the present set of brooch and earrings. It is a demi-parure, the elements of which were made to match each other, and which could representatively adorn a lady of high society on any daily occasion. Each element is composed around a shell cameo showing a maenad with vine leaves in her hair. Maenads or bacchantes in ancient mythology were the followers of the wine god Dionysus or Bacchus, whose wild processions were an inspiration to many artists. More often than not, in the 1860s and 1870s, we find in jewellery representations of vine leaves, bacchantes, satyrs and all those creatures that accompanied the bacchanalia: Industrialization was in full swing, the social corset of rules was tightly laced - the dream of the supposedly unbridled antiquity lured us far away and romantically. Thematically less daring are the frames of the cameos. They show small flowers of turquoise and pearls, accompanied by finely chased golden leaves: They are forget-me-not flowers, which transported their speaking meaning also in the field of jewellery. The demi-parure has been beautifully preserved in its original case. Its hallmarks confirm the stylistic dating, as they were used only between 1867 and 1872 in the then KuK monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
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Antique Demi-Parure with Shell Cameos in Gold, Austria-Hungary circa 1870
Vine Leaves and Forget-Me-Not
€ 2,490.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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