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Magnificent" Tank" Ring with Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies in Gold, Lyon 1940s

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Magnificent" Tank" Ring with Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies in Gold, Lyon 1940s

Description

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

After cool, elegant designs in platinum and white gold had dominated the early years of Art Deco, the French jewelry houses in particular developed this formal language further in the course of the 1930s. Instead of white gold and platinum, yellow and red gold were now once again the metals of choice, and the shapes became more sculptural, voluminous and expansive, albeit still based on a powerful geometry. This change in style can be explained not exclusively, but also by the technical and economic changes of the time. Platinum, for example, was de facto no longer available to goldsmiths from the beginning of the war at the latest, which is why the switch to yellow gold was not only voluntary. At the same time, new forms entered the field of jewelry design, forms that seem surprising from today's perspective. These are above all the tracks of the new tanks ("tank tracks"), which were now the inspiration for various jewelry details. One of the characteristic ring shapes of those years was the so-called "tank ring", the shape of which, positioned at right angles to the finger, looks like an element of such a track. These rings were produced in all kinds of different variations. This ring comes from this period and is a wonderful example of all these stylistic features that were widespread throughout Europe. The ring is made of warmly glowing, slightly reddish gold and is set across the finger. Three waves of glowing gemstones form the front: rose-cut diamonds are set in platinum in the center. To the right and left are glowing synthetic rubies, cut to match and set so close together that a glowing red band is created and no metal is visible: it looks as if colored light is floating on the finger. The hallmarks on the outside of the ring band show that the ring was made in France; it bears marks from Lyon. We date it to the 1940s due to its workmanship and design.

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Historical jewellery not only tells a story of fashion and taste, but also of the consequences of technical inventions! A particularly momentous innovation in the years around 1900 was the invention of synthetic ruby and later sapphire by Auguste Verneuil. Auguste Verneuil from France developed a process, the so-called flame fusion method, to produce rubies and sapphires from powdered aluminium oxide. The crystal structure and chemical composition of these gemstones from the laboratory were completely similar to natural stones: not an imitation like a glass stone, but actually sapphire, only not grown over thousands of years inside the earth, but produced in the laboratory in just a few hours. Today, these syntheses are rarely found in jewellery. In the first decades of the 20th century, however, they were often used. Their color and glow were sometimes superior to natural stones - and often natural stones were not even available. This large late Art Deco ring is a fine example of this.

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€ 1,390.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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