Elegant Déco Pendant with Diamonds in Platinum on Gold, c. 1925

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Elegant Déco Pendant with Diamonds in Platinum on Gold, c. 1925

€ 13,980.00 ^*

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!

This precious pendant is a poem: a poem in praise of the beauty of geometry. Interwoven strips of diamonds in platinum are set in a pointed oval. The result is as fine as lace, with shadow gaps and milgrains structuring the surface. The fine curve of the surface is as soft as fabric, the work curves from the edge first to the front, then to the back, and finally a precious, large old European cut diamond sparkles and shines in the center of the design. The absence of any historical ornamentation demonstrates the modernity of the design. Instead of repeatedly drawing on the shapes of the past, the designers of the 1920s were looking for new forms. Geometric, clear lines, light colours, preferably white: the jewellery of this time of new beginnings after the upheavals of the First World War was to glow in the night like the new electricity that was being introduced everywhere. It should be luxurious, like a life just freed from the hardships of the crisis. And simple, without worries. This piece of jewellery speaks exactly this language. It appears simple and clear, yet is luxurious and well thought out and designed down to the last detail. In addition to the preciousness of the setting - the central diamond of around 1.10 ct shines white, without tinting, and is very pure (vsi) - we were particularly impressed by the perfect workmanship of the piece. The pendant is a one-of-a-kind piece, made entirely by hand and yet so perfectly executed that it is as if the most modern technical processes had already been used. We discovered the piece of jewellery in Düsseldorf. It was most probably created in Central Europe. More recently, it was imported to the Netherlands, where it was hallmarked anew and the platinum chain was added to the pendant. An independent appraisal from Vienna accompanies the precious piece.

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"The new woman" was the ideal of the 1920s and early 1930s. The new woman had won the right to vote, she was self-confident in professional and romantic matters, even part of the nightlife of the Weimar Republic - things that seemed unimaginable barely a decade and a half earlier. Contributions in influential German fashion journals such as Die Dame bear witness to the fact that a new self-image could also be translated into aesthetics, indeed, that it virtually necessitated a new aesthetic. The women portrayed there wore bobbed heads and strikingly made-up lips, loosely cut dresses - and yet the most influential among them were not simply style icons, but were active as authors and artists. It goes without saying that the floral and playful jewellery of the Belle Époque was reminiscent of the time before the war, of a different social order. The jewellery of the new woman consciously set itself apart from this: Clearly designed and geometric, it deliberately eschewed anything sweet and relied on a powerful, cool formal language full of handcrafted finesse. It was a linear, often emphatically austere elegance that characterized the most modern pieces of jewellery of the time.

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€ 13,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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