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Victorian Aesthetic Movement Silver Bangle with Gold Accents, Birmingham 1882

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Victorian Aesthetic Movement Silver Bangle with Gold Accents, Birmingham 1882

Description

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This solid silver bangle was created in Queen Victoria's England. The wide bangle is engraved by hand and features a rich decoration of fine leaves and flowers. The special feature of this piece of jewelry is the elaborate design, in which gold is applied to the silver in two colors. The yellow-gold and red-gold accents of the decoration are not only elaborate, but also particularly decorative and rich in detail. The hoop is a wonderful example of jewellery of the so-called Aesthetic Movement. In the 1880s, many English artists turned against the tide of historicism and searched for forms that were not already imbued with old meaning. They found inspiration in distant Japan, whose gates had opened to the West in 1868 after a long period of seclusion. All of a sudden, Western artists were confronted with an art that offered them a completely new perspective: simple lines, elegant flatness, natural motifs reduced to the essentials. In the course of this movement, silver jewellery in particular was created. Their value was no longer based on the number and size of sparkling diamonds, but solely on their original design. The shiny silver surfaces were preferably decorated with reduced engravings inspired by Japanese depictions of nature, especially those found on so-called Shakudo jewelry. This small masterpiece of the goldsmith's craft, hallmarked as having been made in Birmingham in 1882, is just as impressive today as it was 140 years ago.

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Sterling silver has a fineness of 925/000 and is the most widely used silver alloy today. In addition to 92.5 % pure silver, sterling silver consists of 7.5 % other metals, usually copper. The name refers to the British pound sterling. Sterling silver was the coin material of the early English silver pennies, the so-called "sterlings". One theory is that the name derives from "e(a)sterling" (coming from the east) and refers to the coins that were brought to England from mainland Europe, mainly by the merchants of the Hanseatic League. Since the 16th century, silver in Great Britain has generally been marked with four, sometimes five, neatly juxtaposed individual hallmarks: the city mark (e.g. in London the crowned lion's head, "leopards head"), the date letter (changing annually in typography and shield shape), a master's mark and a fineness mark (there are two sterling standards: the "lion passant", a striding lion seen from the side, indicates 925/1000; Britannia, an allegorical female figure sitting next to her shield, refers to the new sterling fineness of 958/1000). From 1784 to 1890, a fifth revenue stamp with the profile head of the respective ruler was added, serving as a receipt.

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€ 790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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