Fireworks of Colours

Elegant Gold Bangle with Opals & Diamonds, c. 1910

€ 4,590.00 ^*

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Elegant Gold Bangle with Opals & Diamonds, c. 1910

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Legend has it that opals once fell from the sky as tears of joy from the Olympian gods. Perhaps the impressively fiery play of colors of this stone led our ancestors to this idea. In fact, the opals known in antiquity all came from a European mine in what is now Slovakia, which has long since dried up. The fact that opals appeared so frequently in English jewelry at the turn of the 20th century is due to the fact that the large opal fields of Australia were developed at this time. The German geologist Johannes Menge had discovered them and thus paved the way for the mining of the multi-colored stones. This antique bangle from around 1910 also features magnificent Australian opals. Nine shimmering cabochons transform the piece of jewelry into a festival of color. The Australian full opals show iridescent reflections in all colors of the rainbow on a misty-blue base color. The gorgeous stones are set close together in an upright row. They are accompanied by sixteen small diamonds, whose fire wonderfully complements the colorfulness of the opals. The bracelet itself is crafted from yellow gold and magnificently accentuates the special life of the opals. Bracelets like this one - set with fascinating, high-quality gemstones from all the colonies of the British Empire - were very fashionable at the turn of the century before last. The workmanship and comparative pieces in the literature allow us to date this piece to around 1910, a first-class testimony to an era of luxury that we discovered in the south of England.

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€ 4,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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