An Enchanted Garden

Vintage Pendant-Brooch with Colouful Gemstones in Gold, German, c. 1950s

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Vintage Pendant-Brooch with Colouful Gemstones in Gold, German, c. 1950s

Description

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

In the jewellery fashion of the 1950s, many shapes and material combinations that had already emerged around 1930 enjoyed great popularity. However, these designs were refined time and again and adapted to the spirit of the times. This is another example of such a piece of jewellery made of glowing yellow gold with a rich setting of precious gemstones. The relatively large pendant, which can also be worn as a brooch thanks to a retractable eyelet and a pin on the back, belongs to the type of so-called "vegetable jewellery". This form of jewellery emerged during the Art Deco period in Germany and probably developed from Art Nouveau designs in southern Germany and Austria - such as those by Josef Hoffmann for the Wiener Werkstätte, who often worked with golden leaves and tendril motifs. The vegetable ornament owes its current name to the vegetal decoration, from whose foliage pearls and precious stones emerge like ripe fruit. The many small elements and beads, all worked by hand, which give the surface additional structure, were applied individually. The reward for this painstaking work is a fascinating surface design that captures the light and plays with shadows and reflections. Johann Michael Wilm in Munich made similar pieces, and Elisabeth Treskow also designed jewellery in this style. Our goldsmith's work bears the workshop mark of a Wagner goldsmith, which we have not yet been able to identify. However, the workmanship is of exceptional quality. Some other examples of this genre can be found, for example, in Christianne Weber: Schmuck der 1920er und 1930er Jahre in Deutschland, Stuttgart 1990.

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An Enchanted Garden

€ 4,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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