Delicate Antique Earrings with Diamonds in Red Gold, c. 1890

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Delicate Antique Earrings with Diamonds in Red Gold, c. 1890

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Description

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This pair of delicate earrings follows a type known as a "Dormeuse". Dormeuses" are small earrings, usually with leverbacks, which are worn just below the earlobe and can therefore be worn during naps or at night (French "dormir" = to sleep). Dormeuses became very fashionable in the late 19th century: after long earrings had been popular for many decades, they were suddenly considered unfashionable from the 1880s onwards. Earrings of a smaller size were now socially acceptable: "Small dangle earrings are still popular. A pearl, a large diamond close to the earlobe and, at most, a falling stone will suffice perfectly," wrote the influential ladies' journal Der Bazar in 1897. This pair is a particularly delicate example of this fashion. Each of the earrings is set with an old-cut diamond totaling approx. 0.38 ct. The sparkling diamonds are held in flower-shaped settings, so-called "buttercup settings". The settings are forged from reddish gold. A comparison with contemporary catalogs leads us to assume that the pair was created around 1880, cf. the catalog for 1889 by L. J. Flowers from Salem, Massachusetts, the Busiest House of America, see here. The antique cut of the diamonds also matches this. In later times, the pair was imported into what was then Austria-Hungary; it bears an import mark from the Linz inspection authority. We discovered the earrings here in Berlin. The pair has been beautifully preserved and impresses with a soft, nostalgic shimmer that you would look for in modern diamonds in vain.

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€ 890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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