Embers Of Memory

Mysterious Locket as a brooch with Bohemian garnets, circa 1870


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Mysterious Locket as a brooch with Bohemian garnets, circa 1870
Mysterious Locket as a brooch with Bohemian garnets, circa 1870
Description
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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the passing on of fire." The famous symphonist Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) already knew this. But there are few things to which this sentence applies more than to garnet jewellery: its shapes have been preserved over the centuries despite many innovations and are thus in the tradition of the gemstone cutters of Bohemia, who faceted the glowing red garnets and cut them into gemstones. This large locket from around 1870 is unusually decorative. It is shaped as a multipass shield and has a four-tiered structure. Its front is studded all over with sparkling garnets, which form decorative shield shapes made of stones of different sizes. These are Bohemian rose-cut pyrope garnets. A photograph, a lock of hair or a folded letter can be safely stored in a large, glazed compartment on the back. A beautiful 19th century original and a decorative testimony to the great garnet fashion of the time.
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Mysterious Locket as a brooch with Bohemian garnets, circa 1870
Embers Of Memory
€ 790.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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