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Antique Collar Brooch with Old Cut Diamond & Natural Pearls, ca. 1900

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Antique Collar Brooch with Old Cut Diamond & Natural Pearls, ca. 1900

Description

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

Brooches until not so long ago belonged to the indispensable pieces of jewelry. No lady would have left the house around 1950 without a brooch, because without a brooch clothing was not complete. How and where the brooch was worn on the clothes changed following the respective fashions. In the years around 1900 was popular the so-called "collar brooch", which were worn about the height of the top button on high closed garments frontally on the blouse. Such a collar brooch from the heyday of Art Nouveau of the years around 1900 is the present specimen. While the Art Nouveau style spread in France in floral forms, in the German-speaking countries rather abstract and graphic designs were preferred, because the German Emperor firmly rejected the overly floral style of the French. The brooch belongs to this group and was made in Germany in the years around 1900. A small hallmark reveals that it was exported to Linz, Austria, a short time later. Made of 14-karat gold with a wonderfully rich surface of fine gold, this piece of jewelry presents itself as an elegant circular composition organized around a beautiful old-cut diamond. This flower-shaped stone is visually held by two natural pearls accompanied by two small leaves. A time-typical and beautiful piece of turn-of-the-century German jewelry that found its way to us from Vienna.

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The years around 1900: luxury and pure joie de vivre had been elevated to the ideal of the first decades of the 20th century: The new forms of Art Nouveau enriched art and the decorative arts with decorative forms never seen before. Centers quickly emerged in Europe during these years, each taking a different approach to the expression of the new style. While in France the School of Nancy led the way and floral motifs were transformed into spectacular new art forms, in Vienna the Wiener Werkstätte emerged with a stricter conception of ornamentation and created total works of art that were to influence almost every area of human life.

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€ 890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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