Elegant Art Déco Bracelet With Aquamarines & Diamonds, Vienna, 1940s

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Elegant Art Déco Bracelet With Aquamarines & Diamonds, Vienna, 1940s

€ 20,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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Wide bracelets were a passion of Art Deco. Every lady who could afford it wore such treasures - often not just individually, but several of them in a radiant arrangement of pure luxury on her wrist. An advertising photograph of the Mexican-American Hollywood actress Lupe Vélez from 1933 shows the excesses to which this fashion could go. The actress, then the girlfriend of Johnny Weissmüller and known as The Mexican Spitfire, was at the height of her career and shows her success not least through her impressive collection of jewellery. The band presented here comes from Vienna, not Hollywood, but nevertheless follows the same fashion. Its design is a wide, flat band consisting of narrow elements that are flexibly connected to one another. Alternating rectangular and hexagonal scissor-cut aquamarines are set in the gleaming white gold. 240 diamonds with a total weight of more than eight carats transform the areas between the aquamarines into a sea of light. Above and below the stones as well as between them, sawn joints complement the design and add dark shadows as a counterpoint to the bright shine of the gemstones. On closer inspection, the pattern that covers the bracelet reveals itself as a play on geometry. The sawn joints repeat the outlines of the aquamarines and overlap. Hexagons lie next to and over rectangles at the same time. The repeat nestles softly around the arm, endlessly through the hidden clasp, like a fabric or ribbon. The hallmark on the strap shows that it was made in Vienna. At the same time, his design is also close to contemporary northern Italian designs, not only in jewelry design, but also in graphic design and furniture design, e.g. by Osvaldo Borsani or Piero Portaluppi. We therefore date it to the 1940s.

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€ 20,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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