Glory Of The Past

Heavy Vintage Cross Pendant In Gold, Sapphires & Rubies By Ilias Lalaounis, Athens Circa 1990

€ 4,980.00 ^*

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Heavy Vintage Cross Pendant In Gold, Sapphires & Rubies By Ilias Lalaounis, Athens Circa 1990

Description

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Reference to the forms of the past is a recurring motif in the history of jewellery. Not only in the 19th century, when successively the Middle Ages, then the Renaissance, then the Baroque became a new fashion. In modern times, too, the past is by no means so distant that designers and artists have not repeatedly helped themselves anew from the treasure trove of the past. Especially in Italy and Greece, this reference to their own heritage is still alive today. The designs of the Bulgari jewellery dynasty in Rome, for example, repeatedly play with references to antiquity by incorporating the forms or actual objects of antiquity, such as ancient coins, into the jewelry. In Greece, Maison Zolotas and later Ilias Lalaounis have excelled with entire collections in historical forms. The large cross in question here is from the hand of Ilias Lalaounis (b. 1920, ✝︎2013). Lalaounis came from a family that had worked as jewellers and watchmakers for several generations. He began his career in the early 1940s, when he took over the renowned Zolotas family business with Xenophon Zolotas. After the World War, he then opened his own goldsmith shop and was soon able to win over customers such as Jackie Kennedy-Onassis, the widow of the Shah of Persia Farah Diba Pahlavi and Barbra Streisand. The pendant is designed as a medieval paw cross. It is made of high quality gold - typical for the workshop of Lalaounis. Quality coloured stones, red rubies and blue sapphires, set the arms of the cross and its center. Due to the heavy workmanship and the deliberately asymmetrical individual shapes, the piece has a very handcrafted, even historic, appearance. Right away, as if a bishop had worn it a few hundred years ago yesterday. The cross has been preserved in its original leather pouch. We discovered it in Hamburg.

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Glory Of The Past

€ 4,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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