Elegant Flower Basket with Pearls, Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies in Gold, c. 1940

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Elegant Flower Basket with Pearls, Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies in Gold, c. 1940

€ 1,490.00 ^*

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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!

Rococo, the courtly world of elegance and luxury, did not only radiate from France into the world at the end of the 18th century. Even after the end of the Ancien Régime with the French Revolution, this art of playful lightness and refined taste continued to experience new fashions. From the middle of the 19th century, for example, Sisi's and Franz Joseph's rooms in the Hofburg in Vienna were decorated in the Rococo style, and an apartment was also built for the same empress in Venice: the K-u-K kingdom was thus able to see itself as the new realm of a Sun King. In the 1920s, the world experienced another Rococo revival. While Art Deco began to celebrate its success at the same time, room furnishings in the Rococo style were once again created in the USA and Europe in parallel to the modern, cool, geometric designs. This formal idiom lent itself so well to a lady's bedroom, garden pavilions and elegant banqueting halls that it found numerous applications. As a dreamland of beauty and gallant amusement, the years of the late 18th century remained in the collective memory for a long time. Even Cole Porter transported the protagonist of his musical You Barry was a Lady, which premiered in New York in the late 1930s, to the court of Louis XV: love affairs, precious jewellery, high wigs and lively music combined to create a whirlwind of amusing and elegant entertainment. This brooch was born out of this fashion. It is designed in the form of a lively basket of flowers, with an elegantly asymmetrical platinum and diamond basket, a reddish gold handle and bright flowers made of cultured pearls, diamonds and synthetic rubies. A band of further synthetic rubies completes the design at the bottom and gives it support. The shiny polished rose gold surfaces of the leaves and the intense red of the synthetic rubies are typical of the taste of late Art Deco, which is playfully mixed here with the cheerfulness of Rococo. In fact, the jewellery of the 1930s and early 1940s repeatedly contains historical references that counter the otherwise cool modernity with a romantic, warm note. We were able to acquire the basket here in Berlin. It is in very good condition and shines as bright and colorful as on the first day.

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€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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