Glamorous Déco Ring with Diamonds in Platinum on Gold, c. 1920s

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Glamorous Déco Ring with Diamonds in Platinum on Gold, c. 1920s

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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!

The Art Deco era is known for its extravagant diamond jewellery. Especially in the years around 1925, jewellery became increasingly magnificent. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that people's financial situation had calmed down again after hyperinflation; on the other hand, the world of film, stars and starlets was already setting the tone in those years. In the black-and-white films that were on the rise and had recently been broadcast with sound, sparkling white diamonds looked more attractive than colored stones or yellow gold. Hardly any film wardrobe of the female leads in those years was complete without diamond jewellery. This ring presents itself as an oval, flared shield of impressive size and features three large old-cut diamonds in its center. They are framed by smaller rose cut diamonds, giving the ring the presence of a cocktail ring. The center stone weighs around 0.80 ct and is of very high quality - more than 1.50 ct of diamonds are set in total. The diamonds are set in platinum, while the ring itself is made of gold. This beautiful Art Deco jewel is in very good condition and came to us here in Berlin.

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The shape of the diamond has evolved over many centuries. For a long time, it was not technically possible to make more than rudimentary changes to the rough crystal, as the diamond is so exceptionally hard. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was then possible to wring more and more facets out of the crystal, and in the course of the 19th century, the cuts came closer and closer to the shape we know today as a brilliant. However, it was not until 1919 that Marcel Tolkowsky calculated the ideal shape of the brilliant on an optical-physical basis; the exact shape that is the standard in Germany today - the so-called fine cut - was not even defined until 1938. The shape of the modern diamond really became established after the war. The brilliant is therefore a fairly recent invention - and this also means that the proportions of a diamond cut in the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century, a so-called "old cut", do not follow the standard of today's brilliant. In those days, old cuts were always cut individually: The search was on for the best compromise between optimum brilliance on the one hand and the least possible loss of material during cutting on the other.

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€ 3,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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