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Antique Crescent Moon Brooch with Diamonds in Silver on Gold, c. 1890

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Antique Crescent Moon Brooch with Diamonds in Silver on Gold, c. 1890

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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!

"The crescent, the crown and the moon are always popular forms of jewelry. The fancy for them does not vary as it does for other pieces of jewelry. Jewelled crescents are made of all sorts of materials. The perfectly exquisite crescent is supplied with gold points, between which diamonds sparkle and glisten and gleam." This is what the gentle reader could read in a jewellery magazine in 1891. In fact, the sparkling, diamond-studded crescent was one of the most successful jewellery motifs of the Belle Époque, the flourishing period between the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. It was no longer just the nobility who celebrated lavish parties and adorned themselves with diamonds. Thanks to newly discovered diamond deposits and unprecedented wealth, the upper middle classes were now also able to adorn themselves with exquisite jewellery. As a result, more and more precious jewellery was produced than ever before, glittering in the evening at the neckline of decollete velvet and silk dresses in the gaslight. This moon is particularly precious. A total of 75 diamonds totaling around 4.78 ct sparkle in silver. The cool, gleaming metal is mounted on a base of openwork rose gold, as was customary at the time. The piece of jewellery bears no hallmarks and was probably created in Great Britain - but its wearer would have been the epitome of fashionable elegance in the ballrooms of all Western countries, as jewelry fashion had become virtually global. An essential piece of jewellery for any collection of high-quality Belle Époque jewels. We have had an antique box with midnight blue velvet fitted to the well-preserved moon. The quotation from [Anon:] 'Novelties in Jewelry', The Manufacturing Jeweler, Vol. 9 (1891), 1580-1582, p. 1582. Enclosed we reproduce a comparative piece from the French design work "Le Bijou" from 1887.

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€ 9,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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