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Antique Twelve Row Choker Made of Silver, Southern Bavaria, End of the 19th Century


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Antique Twelve Row Choker Made of Silver, Southern Bavaria, End of the 19th Century
Antique Twelve Row Choker Made of Silver, Southern Bavaria, End of the 19th Century
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After the abolition of the rigorous dress codes that had prohibited the rural population from wearing colorful garments and precious metal jewelry since the Middle Ages, more and more colorful and varied forms of jewelry were able to develop from the end of the 18th century. Particularly regionally, this was expressed in an abundance of traditional costumes, which have since determined the image of festively dressed people, especially in Upper Bavaria and Swabia, but also in other regions. For women, these include pile clasps and chokers, bodice cords with pendants and sumptuously decorated lacing pins, earrings and finger rings, hood pins and hair arrows, and for men finger rings, watch chains with a variety of pendants and silver coin buttons. The present magnificent choker necklace from southern Bavaria belongs to this environment. The necklace made of silver consists of twelve chain strands in the classic pea pattern. A large show-off clasp completes the piece of jewelry. The clasp is partially gold-plated and shows an applied filigree pattern on the front, which is accented with a hemisphere of mother-of-pearl, Bohemian garnets, and light blue and red glass stones. Comparative pieces can be found in the Pforzheim Jewellery Museum and literature, including Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (ed.): Schmuck zum Gwand, Pforzheim 2010, p. 33 f., and in Gislind Ritz: Alter bäuerlicher Schmuck Munich 1978, p. 175.
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Antique Twelve Row Choker Made of Silver, Southern Bavaria, End of the 19th Century
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€ 498.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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