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Antique Love Brooch with Opal Hearts in Gold & Diamond, c. 1900


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Antique Love Brooch with Opal Hearts in Gold & Diamond, c. 1900
Antique Love Brooch with Opal Hearts in Gold & Diamond, c. 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!
Plants, flowers, fruit and even vegetables: there is no fruit of nature that has not become the subject of idioms or proverbs. A good example of this is clover. Someone who is praised "over the green clover" in German does not actually deserve so much praise. In English, on the other hand, clover has a more positive connotation - there it is seen as a symbol of happiness. In all its forms, by the way, not just with four leaves! They say: to live in clover, i.e. "to live in clover", to express that one leads a carefree life full of happiness and wealth. And when such a life is combined with love - what could be better? The brooch presented here tells us that its wearer is such a lap child of happiness. We see a large shamrock whose stem is set with sparkling rose-cut diamonds. An old-cut diamond adorns the center of the golden brooch. Three heart-shaped opals form the leaves of the clover - thus combining happiness with love. The colorful clover leaf is mounted on a horizontal bar, which is finished off on both sides by round cabochons made of further opals. The work thus corresponds to the type of collar brooch that was fashionable in the years around 1900. It was also created during this period, as its workmanship and design show. The opals were most likely cut and polished in Idar-Oberstein; the brooch may have been made in Great Britain, where jewellery of this type was very fashionable. We discovered it in the south of England.
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Antique Love Brooch with Opal Hearts in Gold & Diamond, c. 1900
Love & Happiness!
€ 1,890.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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