Girls in Summer

Small Coral & Gilt Silver Brooch, c. 1890


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Small Coral & Gilt Silver Brooch, c. 1890
Small Coral & Gilt Silver Brooch, c. 1890
Description
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Corals were classic summer jewelry in the 19th century and jewellery that younger ladies and girls also wore. In Eduard von Keyserling's last novel Fürstinnen from 1917, for example, the two young princesses of Neustatt-Birkenstein wear "blue summer dresses [and] coral cords around their necks" for picnics in the countryside as a matter of course. Contemporary photographs also often show young girls wearing coral jewellery. The photo at the bottom of our category page Chains & Necklaces shows the young Ellen Terry at the age of 16 wearing a coral necklace, and a photograph from Vienna from the end of the 19th century also shows a girl wearing coral. The shapes of coral jewelry remained unchanged for a long time. Necklaces with graduated beads and brooches that used coral beads to create flower motifs were typical. This brooch from the late 19th century is a typical representative of this type of jewelry. A large coral in a round cabochon cut forms the centerpiece of the brooch. It is surrounded by 18 further coral cabochons. All the corals are mounted in silver. The small brooch came to us here in Berlin. Quote from Eduard von Keyserling: Fürstinnen. Novel. Afterword by Jens Malte Fischer, Zurich: Manesse 2017, pp. 62-63.
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Small Coral & Gilt Silver Brooch, c. 1890
Girls in Summer
€ 189.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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