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Antique Gold Ring With Baroque Table Cut Diamonds, c. 1600 and c. 1800

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Antique Gold Ring With Baroque Table Cut Diamonds, c. 1600 and c. 1800

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The ring presented here tells a story that spans centuries. It begins in the years around 1600, experienced a new chapter in the years around 1800 and does not find its end today, another 200 years later. The ring's five diamonds in their archaic table cuts were cut in the early Baroque period, at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. It is their clear, recognizable shape that helps date the stones. Because of the great hardness of the mineral, diamonds could hardly be worked for a long time. For a long time, they only appeared on rings of the early modern era in their original crystal form. It was not until the 16th century that technical developments made it possible to gradually add more facets to the rough diamonds until the end of the 17th century, when the first early brilliant cuts were created with the Mazarin and Peruzzy cuts. We no longer know which precious jewellery was once adorned with the wonderful early diamonds set here. But it was certainly well protected. For some 200 years later, in the years around 1800, they were not yet lost, but awakened to a new life! They were newly set, in silver, and became the showpiece of the ring here in gold. Its simple, understated shape and the type of settings are typical of the years around 1800, and rings like this were often worn in multiples on one finger. The simple form of the ring band made of gold without any ornamentation corresponded to the scroll-less fashion of classicism. We discovered the ring in Hamburg. Some 200 years after its creation, some 400 years after the first cutting of diamonds, it is now waiting for a new chapter in its history. For dating, cf. the diamonds in the rings of the Baroque period, e.g. in Sandra Hindman et al: Cycles of Life: Rings from the Benjamin Zucker Family Collection, London 2014, pp. 212-230, and the 18th century rings in Diana Scarisbrick: Rings. Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty, London 2007, pp. 326f.

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€ 2,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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