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Expressive Vintage Ring With Rubies & Diamonds, ca. 1985


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Expressive Vintage Ring With Rubies & Diamonds, ca. 1985
Expressive Vintage Ring With Rubies & Diamonds, ca. 1985
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Jewellery of the 1980s and early 1990s fascinates to this day as an often beautiful, and always impressive testimony of a time of optimism and abundance: The oil crisis seemed to be over, Wall Street flourished, and a new image of the woman emerged: self-confident and tough, asserting herself at work, against men, successful, with broad shoulder pads and high heels, she adorned herself with rings, necklaces and brooches in hitherto unusual dimensions, with reflective surfaces of yellow gold and rich trimmings of precious stones. Much costume jewellery was created, but real jewellery was also produced in large numbers in the USA and Europe. The ring presented here from around 1985 bears witness to this. 18 small diamonds together with 21 raspberry red rubies set the surface of its slightly domed face. The rubies are set in seven rows and are only held on the sides by gold bars. This technically sophisticated type of setting makes the stones seem almost invisibly held. The result is a sparkling surface in which the gemstones are cut in such a way that they seem to abut one another without transition. A necklace from around 1990 by Alexandre Reza, Paris, with a similar design, which helped us date this ring as well, is illustrated in David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery. The 20th Century, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2021, p. 280. The ring found its way to us from western Germany and is beautifully preserved.
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Expressive Vintage Ring With Rubies & Diamonds, ca. 1985
Hot Pavement
€ 1,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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