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Antique Bangle with Mediterranean Corals in Silver, Italy c. 1890

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Antique Bangle with Mediterranean Corals in Silver, Italy c. 1890

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This bracelet takes us back to a summer over 100 years ago. The sun is already low on the horizon over the Bay of Naples. A light breeze blows from the sea, the lemons are in bloom and in the shade of the stretched canvas, the weary travelers from the north gaze out over the smooth water. How far away is the rain-soaked homeland with its obligations, work and toil. How beautiful and carefree life is here! The bangle consists of two rows of salmon-colored Mediterranean coral. The design widens in the middle and presents eleven other, larger corals. The characteristic color of the corals shows that they are so-called "Sciacca corals". These subfossil corals had died over thousands of years due to the effects of undersea volcanic eruptions off the coast of Sicily and had accumulated into a large deposit. In 1875, these deposits, which by then had faded to a pale salmon color, were discovered and processed into jewellery for only a few decades. By 1915, the deposits on the seabed were exhausted. The color of the corals thus testifies to their time of origin. The corals are set in lightly gold-plated silver. A perfect piece of jewelry for anyone who dreams of Italian summers all year round - a real vacation bracelet!

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The great journey to the south, to Italy with its art treasures from antiquity to modern times, was the quintessence of bourgeois and aristocratic education in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the century progressed, ever larger circles of society could afford to travel to the beautiful south. And, of course, souvenirs had to be brought home from this stay. From Naples, these were mainly corals and cameos carved into shells, for which the region had always been famous.

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€ 590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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