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Fabulous Star Pendant Made of Gold & Diamonds, ca. 1880


€ 7,590.00 *
Content 1 piece
Unit price €7,590.00 / piece
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Fabulous Star Pendant Made of Gold & Diamonds, ca. 1880
Fabulous Star Pendant Made of Gold & Diamonds, ca. 1880
Description
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One of the most popular jewellery motifs of the 19th century was the diamond-studded star. This fashion began with the Empress of Austria, who introduced the motif of diamond stars to Viennese society and made them immortal classics of jewellery history to this day. The most famous portrait of Sisi, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, shows the young empress with a multitude of radiant diamond stars in her flowing dark hair, which were specially made for her by the Viennese court jeweller A.E. Köchert. After this portrait became known, there was no stopping the ladies of Viennese society. Every woman who could afford it wanted to be in possession of at least one precious star with diamonds. Such a piece from the end of the 19th century we have here before us. It is a six-pointed star with a beautiful half-carat old Mine cut diamond in the center and another 50 old Mine, 8/8 and rose cut diamonds in the rays. The old Mine cuts are cushion-shaped diamonds, each one is individually shaped. The pendant is made of gold and shows a bar with a small thread on its back: this reveals that the star could once be worn in different ways, probably also as a brooch or hat pin. In later times, the pendant eyelet, set with diamonds, was then added and permanently fixed to the star. So today it can be worn on the neck, on a matching chain or velvet ribbon. Today, as over 140 years ago, the diamond star gives the greatest pleasure and waits for a wearer who will let it shine again!
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Size & Details
Fabulous Star Pendant Made of Gold & Diamonds, ca. 1880
Starry Night
€ 7,590.00 *
Content 1 piece
Unit price €7,590.00 / piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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