Elegant Antique Ring with Untreated Burma Ruby & Diamonds, c. 1910

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Elegant Antique Ring with Untreated Burma Ruby & Diamonds, c. 1910

€ 4,490.00 ^*

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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!

When Art Nouveau attempted to overcome the eternally repeated forms of historicism in the evening years of the 19th century and to find a new formal language appropriate to its own time, it was met not only with enthusiasm, but also with loud opposition. Hermann Muthesius was still scathing in 1904: "Art Nouveau is an art that was not created by artists, but by the pattern makers of the manufacturers, by those who looked up from a frog's-eye view at the behavior of the greats and noticed how they cleared their throats and spat." It was a style of the artistic avant-garde, supported by the bohemians - but frowned upon by conservatives. This can also be seen in the jewellery: The early pieces of jewellery in the Art Nouveau style were almost without exception crafted in gold, as daytime jewelry rather than precious, diamond-studded white jewels for the evening, which by their nature were more formal in character. But the tide soon turned. From the second half of the new decade, trade journals such as the Journal der Goldschmiedekunst or the Deutsche Goldschmiedezeitung increasingly featured wonderful Art Nouveau jewels, bright white and with precious trimmings: the forms of the new style had become socially acceptable. It now seemed to contemporaries that investing in precious white jewels in this style would also be worthwhile. This ring is a testimony to this development. Its ring face is composed entirely of geometric shapes, as they became fashionable after 1905 to replace the floral Art Nouveau style. A layer of white platinum is applied to the ring face to make the diamond setting shine brighter. Two old-cut diamonds and a multitude of glittering diamond roses bathe it in white light. A bright pink-red ruby weighing 0.45 ct sparkles in the center of this delicate structure. The stone is untreated, natural and comes from Burma - everything you could wish for in a ruby. We discovered the ring in Munich. It is in very good condition.

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€ 4,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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