Rose Cut River

Precious Antique Necklace with Diamonds in Gold & Silver, ca. 1880

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Precious Antique Necklace with Diamonds in Gold & Silver, ca. 1880

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In the late 19th century, jewelry with softly falling fringes were a big fashion. The beginning was made in the years around 1870 pendants and earrings. Shortly thereafter, colliers and tiaras were also created, which were composed of a long row of uniform elements. Sometimes the elements are the same length, then again staggered in size. Their general structure, however, is always similar - as is their decoration with sparkling diamonds in silver or, later, platinum. A particularly beautiful example of this type of necklace is presented here. A seemingly endless row of small squares is set with sparkling fringes in its center. Alternately, we see small trefoils on narrow bars and broader elements reminiscent of palmettes. These are ornaments from ancient architecture, modeled on the leaves of a palm tree. The necklace is made of high karat gold on the back. The show side, however, is made of silver to give the more than 460 diamonds the best opportunity to sparkle brightly. There are around 9.50 ct rose cut diamonds set here. Setting diamonds in silver was the common way to present diamonds in the late 19th century, before platinum became common at the turn of the century. The use of diamond roses gives the necklace a soft shimmer. And the necklace falls just as gently at the décolleté, as each of the countless elements is movably connected to the next. This allows the jewelry to virtually caress its wearer: it therefore wears quite wonderfully. The shapes of the fringes from the art of antiquity and the use of silver let us date the necklace to around 1880. It has been very well preserved in an antique case. It consists of three elements that can be clipped into each other. Originally it could be worn as a tiara. Unfortunately, the necessary hoop has been lost over the course of time.

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For a brief moment in the late 19th century jewelry with fringes were fashionable. It was the wedding of historicism with its great pluralism of styles. But no matter in which style a piece of jewelry was created, no matter whether it was executed in the Archaeological style, in the Rococo or in the forms of the Renaissance: it had to have fringes! Cf. on the fringe style, among others, the illustrations in Brigitte Marquardt: Jewellery. Realismus und Historismus. 1850-1895. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, München 1998, p. 176f., and the examples in David Bennet and Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery, Woodbridge 2010, p. 152, p. 156, p. 168, p. 181 etc.

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Rose Cut River

€ 19,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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