Unique Earrings From Our Workshop Featuring Chinese Jade Plaques and Antique Diamonds

Butterflies

Unique Earrings From Our Workshop Featuring Chinese Jade Plaques and Antique Diamonds

€ 1,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

The art of Far Eastern cultures had long served as a source of inspiration for European artists. The foreign perspective was so different, and the forms and colours so fresh to the Western eye. As early as the late 16th century, Delft potters were producing blue-and-white objects modeled after Chinese designs, and in the late 19th century, Art Nouveau artists ventured to revitalize Western art—not least with the help of the flowing lines they had encountered in Japanese woodblock prints. Starting in the 1920s, Chinese influences once again found their way into Central European jewelry designs. This time, the focus was on Chinese carvings in cinnabar and black lacquer, as well as in green jade. The aesthetic of lacquerwork was achieved in Chinese-inspired Art Deco jewellery through the use of coral, onyx, and enamel, while jade remained a prominent material. Combined with gold, platinum, and diamonds, this gave rise to pieces of jewellery unlike anything seen before. Such Art Deco-era jewels served as inspiration for our goldsmiths when they crafted these earrings from vintage jade carvings and antique diamonds. The carved jade panels take the form of butterfly wings. In ancient China, the butterfly (蝴蝶 húdié) symbolized being in love. Carved from jade, the butterfly is also linked to an ancient romantic tale: While hunting for a jade-green butterfly, a young man trespassed into the garden of a wealthy mandarin. Instead of being punished for this transgression, the lucky young man, after all sorts of twists and turns, married the householder’s daughter. Since then, the jade butterfly has symbolized successful love. We have complemented the jade panels—with their original gold mountings—with small early 19th-century diamonds in their original silver settings, which sparkle beautifully alongside the green-hued jade stones, creating a charming contrast of shapes and colours. High-karat gold hooks complete these large earrings.

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Butterflies

€ 1,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

Our Promise

We want you to be 100% satisfied! For that reason, we examine, describe and photograph all of our jewellery with the utmost care.

You can rely on our years of experience in the trade and our expertise as a professional art historians for reviews of the antique jewellery. As a member of various trade organisations and the British Society of Jewellery Historians, we remain committed to the highest possible degree of accuracy. In our descriptions, we always also indicate any signs of age and defects and never hide them in our photos – this saves you from any unpleasant surprises when your package arrives.

Should you for some reason not be satisfied, please don’t hesitate to contact us so that we can find a solution together. In any case, you can return any article within one month and we will refund the full purchase price.

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