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Antique Silver & Gold "Giardinetto" Ring with Diamonds, c. 1820


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Antique Silver & Gold "Giardinetto" Ring with Diamonds, c. 1820
Antique Silver & Gold "Giardinetto" Ring with Diamonds, c. 1820
Description
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This elegant and unusual ring allows us to immerse ourselves in the fragrant, graceful world of the early 19th century. We see a bouquet of fragrant flowers in a vase, set with diamonds in beautiful old cuts that are no longer used today. The largest diamond occupies the body of the vessel, from which the diamond flowers seem to grow. Art, fashion and jewellery in Europe in the second half of the 18th century - the Rococo era - embodied joie de vivre and confidence, sophisticated culture and courtly refinement like hardly any other era. Filigree and colorful "giardinetti rings" (from the Italian for "small gardens") were among the characteristic pieces of this period. They featured blossoms and bouquets of flowers, often with colorful gemstones and diamonds. Our ring is a later representative of this type of ring. The depiction of the flowers is already more austere and less naturalistic than in the 18th century. While early Giardinetti rings often have very fine, curved ring bands, the band of this ring is a magnificently engraved, wide band of rocailles and sculptural flowers - matching the main motif of the piece of jewelry. We therefore date it to around 1820. This ring, made of high-carat gold and silver, has survived the passage of time very well and appears to have always been treasured. We discovered the ring in Munich. Comparable rings are illustrated in Ginny Redington Dawas/Olivia Collings: Georgian Jewelry 1714-1830, Woodbridge 2007, p. 143.
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Antique Silver & Gold "Giardinetto" Ring with Diamonds, c. 1820
Fiori nel Vaso
€ 2,390.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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