Rare ring with sapphire, diamond & citrine By Elisabeth Treskow, circa 1935

Three kings

Rare ring with sapphire, diamond & citrine By Elisabeth Treskow, circa 1935

€ 6,980.00 ^*

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This ring comes from the hand of one of the most important female jewelry artists who had a lasting influence on the goldsmith's craft in the 20th century: Elisabeth Treskow (* August 20, 1898 in Bochum; † October 6, 1992 in Brühl), whose name is primarily associated with the rediscovery of the Etruscan granulation technique. Treskow, who was one of the first women to practise the craft of goldsmithing professionally in recent times, completed an extensive training program. After attending the Hagen silversmiths and the Kunstgewerbeschule Essen, she completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith and silversmith in Schwäbisch-Gmünd and in Munich, where she passed her journeyman's examination under the goldsmith Karl Rothmüller. As early as 1919, she set up her own workshop in Bochum, which she moved to Margarethenhöhe in Essen in 1923, a well-known artists' colony at the time. She remained successful even after the Second World War. She now lived in Cologne, where she was responsible for the first restoration of the shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral and created, among other things, the chain of office for the Lord Mayor of Cologne. This gold ring is designed in the typical style of late Art Deco, also known as "retro" jewelry in the English-speaking world. The wide ring band presents a rectangular ring face that lies across the finger. It is set with three gemstones: an intense blue cabochon-cut sapphire, a cushion-shaped old-cut diamond in a platinum setting and another cabochon-cut citrine. The diamond weighs around 1.13 ct and is very pure, its color has a slightly warm tint. Cabochon-cut gemstones can be found throughout Treskow's oeuvre; she seems to have preferred this cut to faceted gemstones. Probably Treskov's most popular work, the championship trophy of the German Football Association, which she made with her students at the Cologne Werkschulen in 1949, is also set with cabochon-cut gemstones. Here, the two cabochons frame the diamond, a stone that is certainly older than the ring and was cut in the 19th century. The fact that an older gemstone was inserted here indicates that the ring was created in the 1930s, a time of economic scarcity. The use of slightly reddish gold with an overlay of fine gold also points to this period before the war, as does the design. After the war, the shapes became generally rounder and more solid. On Treskow's work, see Christiane Weber: Schmuck der 20er und 30er Jahre in Deutschland, Stuttgart 1990, p. 323ff. as well as the numerous entries in Anna Beatriz Chadour/Rüdiger Joppien: Schmuck. Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln, vol. 10, 2 vols. e, Cologne 1985, especially vol. 2.

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