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Luxurious Gold Snake Ring with Diamond & Ruby from Burma, Birmingham 1918

€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Unit price €1,290.00 / piece

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Luxurious Gold Snake Ring with Diamond & Ruby from Burma, Birmingham 1918

Description

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

This reddish gold ring shows the bodies of two snakes entwined in a tight coil. The heads of the animals hold a white diamond in the historic old cut and a shining red, untreated ruby from Burma. The snake ring motif is an ancient symbol of friendship and solidarity. The ancient Egyptians were already familiar with this pictorial idea, and in Germany it experienced a heyday in the Biedermeier period and later a renaissance in Art Nouveau. In England, rings of this type are called "promise rings", as they are often based on a promise, because just as the snake wraps itself seemingly inextricably around the wearer's finger, the friendship or love of the giver should be just as firm. The hallmark of the ring reveals that it was made in England, as it bears the hallmarks of the Birmingham Hallmark Office with the date letter for 1918. We like it because of its good, everyday size and the wonderful sparkle of its gemstones.

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Symbolism was a particular trend in art at the turn of the century. Formally closely related to Art Nouveau, this style was mainly influenced by Belgian artists such as Fernand Khnopff and Félicien Rops, but artists from France such as Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon and from Germany such as Max Klinger also created works that can be classified as Symbolist. What the paintings, prints, drawings and jewelry designs of this era have in common is that the designs are often disconcerting or even repulsive at first glance, as the artists preferred to use enigmatic and unusual motifs. Snakes, beetles, skulls and impassive looking faces populated the canvases to encourage viewers to reflect on life, religion, metaphysics and the nature of nature, true to the core sentence of the so-called Symbolist Manifesto of 1886: "The essential characteristic of Symbolist art is that it never fixes an idea conceptually or expresses it directly".

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€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Unit price €1,290.00 / piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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