Sea Pictures

Delicate Pendant Brooch with Seed Pearls, England c. 1905


€ 980.00 *
Content 1 piece
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Delicate Pendant Brooch with Seed Pearls, England c. 1905
Delicate Pendant Brooch with Seed Pearls, England c. 1905
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Britain's society, fashion, taste and trade have always been focused on the sea. The British fleet has criss-crossed the seas for centuries, creating a global empire and bringing immeasurable treasures home to the British Isles from all over the world. And this fact also influenced British artistic creation. On October 5, 1899, Clara Butt sang the premiere of "Sea Pictures" by Edgar Elgar, the great English composer. She was dressed as a mermaid, as Elgar's song cycle deals with the sea and its mystical inhabitants. The audience was so enraptured by Elgar's music and Butt's performance that she was invited by Queen Victoria a short time later to sing again as a mermaid at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, accompanied by Elgar on the piano... The whisper of the sea seems to have been captured in this pendant brooch, which was created a few years later when Elgar's "Sea Slumber Song" became a catchy tune for English society. Two faceted seawater-blue glass pastes are set in it together with small natural pearls, with the stones suspended in a mobile fashion. The fine seed pearls surround it as a frame and in delicate gold laurel leaves. The piece of jewelry can either be worn as a brooch, as the pendant loop can be detached - or as a pendant on the enclosed modern gold chain. Give it a try and wear the piece of jewelry with its sea theme while listening to Elgar's "Sea Pictures" - perhaps you will be as enchanted as Queen Victoria once was?
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Delicate Pendant Brooch with Seed Pearls, England c. 1905
Sea Pictures
€ 980.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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