Floral Fireworks

Antique brooch with old-cut diamonds in silver, circa 1885

€ 4,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Antique brooch with old-cut diamonds in silver, circa 1885

Description

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

This brooch offers a wonderful game of deception. Is it a flower wet with dew, moved by the wind, its leaves fluttering in front of delicate weeds? A comet moving across the sky? Or a firework with a sparkling tail? All these associations of ethereal beauty were welcome in the late 19th century, when sparkling diamond jewellery was not only intended, but required to adorn ladies of society in the evening. This development had been triggered by the discovery of rich diamond deposits in South Africa at the end of the 1860s. Added to this was the invention of electric light and, last but not least, the rapid rise in middle-class wealth and living standards as a result of industrialization. As a result, more and more precious jewellery was created than ever before. Our brooch is a result of this development. It contains a total of around 1.75 ct of diamonds in silver on gold. Some of the larger diamonds are still in the very cushion-shaped old cuts, the so-called "Old Mine Cut", which, like the design and shape of the settings, allows it to be dated to the 1880s. The smaller diamonds are rose cuts, whose shimmer is more subtle than the brilliance of the large old cuts. Originally, the brooch could also be mounted on a hairpin as an aigrette for the hair, as an additional setting on the back shows. However, as is almost always the case, the hairpin has been lost. It may have been melted down later in its history, as hair fashion changed so fundamentally in the decades following the creation of this piece that hairpins were no longer worn. A magnificent piece that is now waiting to be worn again!

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Floral Fireworks

€ 4,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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