Ruby And Roses

Large Art Nouveau Ring With Ruby & Diamonds, ca. 1910

€ 3,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Large Art Nouveau Ring With Ruby & Diamonds, ca. 1910

Description

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

When Art Nouveau attempted in the evening years of the 19th century to overcome the eternally repeated forms of historicism and to find a new language of form that belonged to its own time, it met not only with enthusiasm but also with loud opposition. As late as 1904, Hermann Muthesius was scathing: "Art Nouveau is an art that was not created by artists, but by the pattern draftsmen of the factory owners, by those who looked up from a frog's perspective at the behavior of the great and noticed how they cleared their throats and spat." It was a style of the artistic avant-garde, worn by the bohemians - but frowned upon by conservatives. This can also be seen in the jewellery: Early Art Nouveau jewellery was almost invariably crafted in gold, as daytime jewellery rather than precious diamond-studded white jewels for the evening, which by their nature were more formal. Soon, however, the tide turned. From the second half of the new decade, we find wonderful jewels in Art Nouveau style, bright white and with precious trimmings, in trade journals such as the Journal der Goldschmiedekunst or the Deutsche Goldschmiedezeitung: the forms of the new style had become socially acceptable. Now it seemed to contemporaries that investing in precious white jewels in this style would also be worthwhile. The present ring is a testimony to this development. Its ring face is composed entirely of daringly curved lines. A layer of white platinum overlies the ring face to allow the diamond setting to shine brighter. Two old-cut diamonds and a multitude of glittering diamond roses bathe it in white light. At the center of this delicate structure is emblazoned a bright pink-red ruby weighing 0.49 ct. We have had it freshly polished so that its facets now shine again as on the first day.

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Ruby And Roses

€ 3,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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