Vintage Gold Ear Clips with Antique Seal Fob Intaglios, Probably by Lährm, Salzburg, c. 1995

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Vintage Gold Ear Clips with Antique Seal Fob Intaglios, Probably by Lährm, Salzburg, c. 1995

€ 2,690.00 ^*

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

Coats of arms tell stories. They tell of old alliances, ambitious marriages, lost estates, saved marriages and, of course, a good dose of class consciousness. Anyone who has ever started to leaf through Siebmacher's Großes Wappenbuch, the monumental reference work of German-language heraldry, knows that there is a small world of its own hidden behind every coat of arms. Lions rise up on their hind legs, griffins hold swords, unicorns guard helmets and entire family histories are condensed into a picture of astonishing expressiveness in just a few characters. The ear clips presented here also come directly from this world. A total of four intaglios have been joined together to form a pair of striking earrings. Two oval coat of arms stones are set in the upper part of the clips, while a rectangular intaglio is movably attached below each one. The cameos were cut from carnelian and heliotrope, whose warm red and deep green tones harmonize wonderfully with each other here. Simple frames of reddish gold hold the crest stones. Originally, the engraved stones were probably embedded in signet rings. This is precisely the special charm of these pieces. They are fragments of past family histories whose complete narrative is no longer tangible today. The cameos were probably created in the 19th century. The ear clips in their current form, on the other hand, are likely to be much younger and were probably made in the 1990s. Their gold stamps allow us to locate them in Salzburg, where they were probably made in the studio of the jeweler Lährm on Universitätsplatz. There is a certain humor in these pieces of jewellery, as there is of course a certain irony in combining the once strictly exclusive coats of arms of different families into one piece of jewellery. Where once careful attention was paid to rank, lineage and correct heraldry, the different families now meet side by side in equal rank on a pair of ear clips. These extraordinary pieces came to us together with a matching bracelet from an impressive private collection in Stuttgart.

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€ 2,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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