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Art Nouveau necklace with plique-à-jour enamel & pearls in silver, Andreas Odenwald, Pforzheim c. 1900


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Art Nouveau necklace with plique-à-jour enamel & pearls in silver, Andreas Odenwald, Pforzheim c. 1900
Art Nouveau necklace with plique-à-jour enamel & pearls in silver, Andreas Odenwald, Pforzheim c. 1900
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Probably no other country is more associated with the sweeping, elegant forms of Art Nouveau than France. Hector Guimard designed the famous metro stations for Paris, and Lalique created the great works of Art Nouveau jewelry here around c. 1900 - many of them so artistic that they were intended less to be worn than to be looked at. However, it was in Germany, or more precisely in Pforzheim, that Art Nouveau experienced a certain democratization of forms in the field of jewellery. Here, in southern Germany, hundreds of large and small jewelry companies supplied the whole of Europe with jewellery in the latest forms, but often made of cheaper materials than the jewelers from Paris. The necklace shown here is one such piece of "costume jewelry" from Pforzheim in the Art Nouveau style. Lines of silver sweep in and out around a disc of mother-of-pearl, staggering to form a shape that is both geometrically clear and reminiscent of a dragonfly. A delicate, translucent skin of translucent window enamel with a color gradient from red to green shines in the spaces between the bars. A movably suspended winged pearl shimmers downwards. The elaborate technique of plique-à-jour enameling used here was particularly popular with Art Nouveau artists. The enamel is cast between the framing borders without any additional supports, similar to the panes of stained glass windows. With this form of enamel, the jewelry designers were able to realize their design ideas in a translucent and almost ethereal way. The great jewelry designers such as René Lalique and Léopold Gautrait created numerous pieces using this technique. According to the hallmark, our necklace is the work of the goldsmith Andreas Odenwald. Further information on Pforzheim jewellery in French and German Art Nouveau forms can be found in the wonderfully illustrated volume by Fritz Falk: Jugendstil-Schmuck aus Pforzheim, Stuttgart 2008, here with works by Andreas Odenwald on pages 276 -287.
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Art Nouveau necklace with plique-à-jour enamel & pearls in silver, Andreas Odenwald, Pforzheim c. 1900
A fresh becoming
€ 590.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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