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Antique gold locket with diamonds, circa 1905

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Antique gold locket with diamonds, circa 1905

Description

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In the years around 1900, the forms of Art Nouveau enriched art and the decorative arts with decorative forms never seen before. Local centers quickly emerged, each taking a different approach to the new style. While in France the Nancy School led the way and floral motifs were transformed into spectacular new art forms, in Vienna the Wiener Werkstätte emerged with a stricter approach to ornamentation and Gesamtkunstwerke were created that sought to influence almost every area of human life. The pendant presented here, a locket for photography, which was still quite new at the time, shows this rather graphic, Central European variant of Art Nouveau. The design is round, flat and set with diamonds on the front. Under an engraved flower with symmetrically arranged leaves on the right and left, graphic forms are added at the bottom. It looks as if three diamonds in triangular settings are suspended from the blossom. To the right and left, further diamonds, now in square settings, are set in the area below the engraved leaves. The design is reminiscent of the works of Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann in Vienna. In fact, we also discovered the pendant in Vienna. An original insert inside provides space for five small photos. A modern gold anchor chain completes the pendant.

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In the 19th century, lockets were undisputedly one of the most popular pieces of jewelry, enjoying great popularity among all social classes. Kept close to the heart, lockets could be used to keep mementos of loved ones or happy events safe from prying eyes. When photography became affordable over the graduated course of the century and the new photographs replaced the miniature paintings that had previously been commonplace, it became fashionable to carry these little marvels of technology with you in a locket. Depending on taste and budget, the jewelry manufacturers and goldsmiths of those years produced very different pieces from tombac, silver or gold.

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Flourishing memories

€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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