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Antique Gold, Platinum and Paste Pendant on Gold Chain, Paris circa 1905

€ 1,290.00 ^*

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Antique Gold, Platinum and Paste Pendant on Gold Chain, Paris circa 1905

Description

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

Paris has been a center of fashion and jewellery for centuries. Designs from Paris set the style throughout Europe. New shapes and ideas emerged every season and last season's designs were as quickly demodé as the changing seasons. But how could the goldsmiths' clientele keep up with this constant change in taste? No problem for customers with sufficient means. But just as today, pieces for the smaller purse were created alongside the sumptuously appointed designs of the great houses: as enchanting in form and design as the most precious objects, only a little less expensive in detail. A common trick was to use simili-stones instead of real gemstones, so that the difference was barely noticeable. This pendant shows this well. It is made of high-carat gold and platinum, just like every piece of jewelry from the major jewelry houses. The basic shape of an elongated quatrefoil is adorned with neoclassical cross-band details on the outer edges, in keeping with the fashion of the time. Leaves accentuated with platinum sparkle and bear colorful fruit: however, glass pastes, white sapphires and imitation pearls are used here instead of diamonds and pearls. A peridot green gemstone shines in the center of the design, faceted into a rhombus. This is a garnet-glass doublet, which is completely unusual today but was widely used at the time. A wafer-thin slice of garnet is stuck to a body of green glass, and the two are then faceted together. The result is a gemstone that has a high refraction due to the garnet and therefore sparkles much richer than glass. The surface is also harder and better protected against scratches. The use of such doublets only ended with the introduction of synthetic gemstones a short time later. The pendant is therefore a true piece of costume jewelry. High-quality workmanship and made of real gold, and yet just affordable enough that it could be replaced quickly when fashion changed. According to its hallmarks, it was made in Paris. We have added the antique chain that was made in Germany. So it can be worn immediately.

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As jewellery from the city of fashion was so highly coveted, it was often imitated or copied. Around the turn of the century, French jewelry manufacturers therefore began to patent their ideas: The "déposé" mark on the back of a piece of jewelry still shows today that a patent existed for the design.

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€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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