Elegant antique ring with natural pearls & diamond roses, Vienna circa 1875 & later

Pearls And Roses

Elegant antique ring with natural pearls & diamond roses, Vienna circa 1875 & later

€ 1,190.00 ^*

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!

In the early 20th century, all pearls used for jewellery came from the sea and rivers. It was the development of pearl farming that made these precious natural wonders more widely available and affordable. Most of the pearls that adorned the jewellery of the turn of the century were therefore recovered by divers in the waters of the Persian Gulf, off the coasts of India or off Queensland. They were accordingly highly valued and often took the place of other gemstones as the centerpiece of particularly high-quality pieces of jewellery. This ring is also adorned with three natural pearls. Each of them has its own shape and shade of color. So-called bouton pearls were chosen, whose flat shape allows them to blend harmoniously into the ring face. A three-pass silver frame set with diamonds surrounds the pearls and forms an elegantly elongated ring face. However, a look at the back reveals that this piece of jewellery has a story that is not apparent at first glance. Recesses at the sides and the unusually flat construction of the ring face suggest that it was not originally a ring. The pearl-studded element probably once formed the clasp of a necklace or bracelet. It was only about a generation later that it was fitted with a simple reddish gold bar and reworked into a ring. The hallmarks reveal that this modification took place in Vienna. The result is an astonishingly coherent whole: an elegant, elongated ring of the kind that was particularly prized in the c. 1900s. The piece of jewellery, together with its antique case, has been beautifully preserved and came to us from Baden.

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Pearls And Roses

€ 1,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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