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Antique "Harlequin" Necklace With Tourmalines, Topazes & Quartz In Gold, ca. 1890


€ 1,690.00 *
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Antique "Harlequin" Necklace With Tourmalines, Topazes & Quartz In Gold, ca. 1890
Antique "Harlequin" Necklace With Tourmalines, Topazes & Quartz In Gold, ca. 1890
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This necklace surprises with its extraordinary colourfulness: coloured stones in pink, red, green and delicate shades of orange and brown complement each other to form a sparkling row. Fine, delicate gold settings hold the stones, which form the graduated showpiece of the necklace. Jewelry in bright colours are encountered again and again in the history of jewellery. Especially in the Rococo loved colourful jewellery. These works called "harlequin" usually made a magnificent garden of flowers and blossoms appear before the eyes. Colorful "giardinetti rings" (from the Italian for "little gardens") are also among the appealing pieces of this period. They often feature small blossoms and bouquets of flowers with colourful gemstones and diamonds, set in a basket, vase or pot. The piece here shows that the desire for colour once again became fashionable at the end of the 19th century. Thirteen natural gemstones, tourmalines and topazes, citrines and an amethyst are set in gold. Their variegated array is colourful but tasteful and not garish, in this it is in keeping with the late 19th century taste for muted colours. The fine workmanship of the settings and the chain also show that the necklace was made in the years around 1890. It found its way to us here in Berlin. Cf. on the so-called Harlequin Jewellery of the Rococo, among others, Ginny Reddington Dawes / Olivia Collings: Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830, Woodbridge 2007, p. 90.
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Antique "Harlequin" Necklace With Tourmalines, Topazes & Quartz In Gold, ca. 1890
Color joy
€ 1,690.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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