Lavallière

Delicate Gold Ribbon Bow Necklace with Diamond, Turquoises & Natural Pearls, circa 1905

€ 1,290.00 ^*

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Delicate Gold Ribbon Bow Necklace with Diamond, Turquoises & Natural Pearls, circa 1905

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Negligé necklace, lavallière - in Europe, both terms describe the same type of necklace. The term negligé necklace alludes to the casual elegance of such an asymmetrical piece, as it derives from the French word for "careless". But where the second name comes from, the history of jewellery is divided: either it comes from the actress Ève Lavallière, who loved to wear such necklaces, or it derives from the Duchess Louise de La Vallière, who liked to tie men's neckties into bows with ends of unequal length. This necklace from the first decade of the 20th century recalls the latter story. On a fine yellow gold anchor chain is a ribbon set with pearls. In the center, the knot, we find a glittering diamond in a modern brilliant cut, replacing a once lost gemstone. On the ribbons of the loop are suspended movable pendulums, each set with two pearls and a turquoise. The two turquoises beautifully show that they are little wonders of nature, one is forget-me-not blue and the second is sea green. The designers of the turn of the century loved such delicate, moving and playful shapes, and created numerous variations of this basic form during this period. The one we have here was likely made in Great Britain. The chain is a modern addition.

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The years around 1900 brought a formal language into the world of jewellery with the so-called "Garland Style", which countered Art Nouveau with a more classical, refined stylistic approach. Borrowings from Louis XVI forms and fine motifs from classical antiquity enlivened a neoclassicism that valued small, delicate laurel tendrils as much as minute festoons and ornamentation with tiny millegrains, as well as fine openwork in gold and platinum. Luxurious materials and fittings were sought after and supplied by goldsmiths in Paris, London and Vienna as well as by their counterparts in Berlin and overseas.

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Lavallière

€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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