Elegant Antique Bar Brooch with Diamonds & Emeralds in Platinum, c. 1930

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Elegant Antique Bar Brooch with Diamonds & Emeralds in Platinum, c. 1930

€ 1,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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

Bar brooches are a form of jewelry that enjoyed great popularity in the first decades of the 20th century. They were worn in many different ways and were particularly creative during the Art Deco period. For example, the German fashion journal Die Dame stated in its fashion notes of 1925 that people now wore "rather voluminous pins, which always look best at the front of the waist as a fastener or the end of an insert". But they could also be seen as the end of a blouse collar, or even pinned over the ties of garçonnes. This example is particularly carefully and finely executed. The elongated brooch is made of platinum and richly set with diamonds. On the right and left, bands of emeralds are laid crosswise around the brooch so that it looks as if they are holding the design together. The brooch widens in the middle and surrounds three slightly larger diamonds. Emeralds frame the center field. The emeralds, cut with great skill to fit into their settings, are, in the parlance of the time, "calibrated", i.e. shaped precisely so that they form an unbroken line when set next to each other. Using gemstones in this way came into fashion shortly before the First World War: they are very often found in emerald, ruby and sapphire jewellery of the 1910s and 1920s. Shortly after 1930, however, their use soon fell out of fashion again. We discovered the brooch in the Rhineland. It is a beautiful, everyday example of the high jewelry culture of Art Deco.

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€ 1,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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