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Antique medallion brooch with snake motif in red gold, Great Britain ca. 1810

€ 1,190.00 ^*

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Antique medallion brooch with snake motif in red gold, Great Britain ca. 1810

Description

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In jewellery from the early 19th century, the snake often appears to us as a symbol of infinity. Here, too, a snake with a body of yellow gold coils around a window of glass, behind which the lock of hair of a loved one can be inserted. Thus, the snake symbolizes the infinity of connection by biting its own tail - a motif called ouroboros, which was already known in ancient Egypt. One of the oldest known uses of the symbol was found in Tutankhamun's tomb. Ouroboroi were also often used in mourning jewellery, because they alluded to the eternity of a union, to the never-ending love for a person as well as to the reunion after death and the eternal cycle of life. Especially medallions, which were supposed to carry a lock of hair of the deceased person, were entwined with snakes. Only a little later, at the turn of the Victorian era, they would also become popular as love symbols. It is particularly beautiful and rare that the medallion brooch has survived in its original case. Here it has spent the last 210 years in slumber and has thus been excellently preserved. Unlike the bulk of Ouroboros medallion brooches of its time, it was never inscribed with an engraved inscription, suggesting that it was never used to commemorate a deceased person. Due to the simple design of the brooch, which is stylistically much closer to classicism than to the playful decoration of a few later years, we date it to around 1810.

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€ 1,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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