Celebration of Beauty

Beautiful Belle Époque Ring with Diamonds and Oriental Pearl, c. 1900


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Beautiful Belle Époque Ring with Diamonds and Oriental Pearl, c. 1900
Beautiful Belle Époque Ring with Diamonds and Oriental Pearl, c. 1900
Description
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The British artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler titled his 1861/62 painting Symphony in White, No. 1, and firmly denied that it held any narrative meaning: its value, he insisted, lay purely in its composition, in the beauty of the painting itself. In doing so, Whistler helped lay the foundation for a tradition of artists and artisans who saw beauty itself as the highest ideal. In a way, the ring presented here echoes Whistler’s vision of art. It, too, responds to the aestheticist trends of its time. Around 1900, rings no longer held the deeply sentimental value they once did for early 19th-century women. Rather than wearing a colorful mix of many rings, the fashion shifted toward a few carefully selected pieces designed primarily to create a visual impact – harmoniously matched and refined in appearance. Like Whistler’s painting, the ring gleams in pure white, presenting a symphony of variations on this “non-color”: the silky luster of a fine Oriental pearl joins the cool brilliance of antique-cut diamonds, all set in silver. When worn, the ring appears as a chord of white tones. Only from the side is the gold of the underlying structure revealed – typical of the time, as the front was silver-plated to create a uniform white appearance when worn. This beautiful ring was created around 1900 – a splendid, wearable original from the Belle Époque, the "Beautiful Era," a name it truly deserves.
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Beautiful Belle Époque Ring with Diamonds and Oriental Pearl, c. 1900
Celebration of Beauty
€ 2,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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