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Playful Platinum and Diamond Clip, Art Deco Around 1930

€ 6,590.00 ^*

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Playful Platinum and Diamond Clip, Art Deco Around 1930

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The Rococo, the courtly world of elegance and luxury, radiated out from France into the world not only at the end of the 18th century. As a dreamland of beauty and gallant amusement, the years of the late 18th century remained long in the collective memory. From the middle of the 19th century, for example, Sisi's and Franz Joseph's rooms in the Hofburg in Vienna were decorated in the rococo style, and an apartment for the empress was also built in Venice: the KuK monarchy could thus see itself as the new empire of a sun king. In the 1920s, the world once again experienced a rococo craze. While at the same time Art Deco began to celebrate its successes, room furnishings in the Rococo style were once again created in the USA as well as in Europe parallel to the modern, cool geometric designs. Especially for the bedroom of a lady, for garden pavilions and elegant banquet halls, this formal language lent itself so well that it found numerous uses. The clip presented here was created from this fashion and combines the Art Deco desire for white jewellery made of diamonds and platinum with the sensuous forms of the Rococo. Elegant sweeps form the rocaille that gave the era its name, while curved wires recall those garlands of plants that sprawled across curtains, walls, and furniture in Rococo salons. The result is a piece of jewellery that wants to whisk you away to a romantic, fairy-tale counterworld. And let's be honest: who wouldn't want to dream this dream once in a while? The clip - which, by the way, is probably the most typical Art Deco brooch shape of all - is made of platinum. An independent expert's report has also confirmed the preciousness of the piece. It is enclosed with the brooch, which can be worn in many ways.

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The special thing about the clip is that it could no longer be worn only on the lapel, but everywhere on the dress, on the belt, on the bag and even in the hair. Often as a pair, but also individually, surprising accents could be set, which were not possible so far. At the time of their introduction, the shape of the clips was initially flat, the surfaces richly set with diamonds. In the course of the 1930s, more voluminous, geometric shapes came into fashion. Also, yellow gold again replaced the previously favored white gold, in line with the general trend of Art Deco. One last innovation before the upheaval of the Great War was the redesign of the back holder towards the end of the 1930s. Whereas previously there had been a single large plate with a spring mechanism, now two interconnected pins were used. On the history of the clip, see David Bennett/Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery, Woodbridge 2010, pp. 322-325, with numerous illustrations.

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€ 6,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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