Elegant Tourmaline and Diamond Bracelet in Platinum and Gold, Robert Merath, Ulm, c. 1930s

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Elegant Tourmaline and Diamond Bracelet in Platinum and Gold, Robert Merath, Ulm, c. 1930s

€ 4,590.00 ^*

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

Late Art Deco jewellery returned to the history of the goldsmith's art more than the cool and modernist design language of the 1920s had done. With the new decade, the pieces of jewellery became more voluminous, the colours changed from white gold and platinum to yellow gold, and here and there, especially in Germany, the one or other romantic reminiscence of the "good old days" of the Biedermeier period or the Renaissance was mixed in between the modern forms. This bracelet is a fine example of this. It is made of yellow gold with elegant platinum details and consists of a seemingly endless series of two types of links. The longer elements bear a sparkling, grass-green tourmaline on a bed of moving gold leaves. Four sparkling platinum leaves are set with small diamonds and frame the tourmaline. The shorter elements in between are designed around a granulated sphere of gold. Here, two platinum leaves are set with diamonds. Golden leaves and spiral tendrils also form the background here. The color scheme of bright, intense yellow gold, bright green and platinum accents is typical of German jewellery from the 1930s. Intensely colored gemstones were very fashionable, and many amethysts, citrines and tourmalines were used to create a modern, novel impression. The granulations and spiral scrolls were also at the height of fashion - and yet the design also manages to tie in with models from the past through the baroque-looking golden leaves, thus building a bridge between the past and modernity. The bracelet is the work of Ulm goldsmith Robert Merath. Merath (*1850, +1914) was a court jeweler in Württemberg and worked primarily in the historicist style. His children continued to run the company and achieved great success in the interwar period with designs in the Art Deco style. This bracelet is a very fine example of this. It has been immaculately preserved in a vintage case from a jeweler in Memmingen.

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