Blue Flowers

Antique Parure of Bracelet, Brooch, Earclips & Ring With Natural Pearls & Diamonds, Circa 1850

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Antique Parure of Bracelet, Brooch, Earclips & Ring With Natural Pearls & Diamonds, Circa 1850

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After the harsh austerity of art in classicism, taste turned to nature and romanticism in the post-Napoleonic era. In Frühlingstraum from his Winterreise, Schubert longs for "colorful flowers, just as they bloom in May". In painting, Caspar David Friedrich evokes the colors of the sky and in the field of jewellery, designers abandoned the forms of antiquity for the first time in decades and created works of the most beautiful delicacy that were entirely in the spirit of imitating nature. This set of bracelet, brooch, earrings and ring demonstrates this delight in naturalism and colour. The pieces of jewellery are designed in the form of twisted plant stems bearing enameled flowers with natural pearls and diamonds. They are blue flowers that bloom here: the proverbial blue flower of 19th century Romanticism. The parure was created in the middle of the 19th century. Blue enamel had already become a big fashion in the 1840s. Designs made from twisted branches and stems then dominated the fashion around 1850 at the latest. We have reproduced a page of design drawings published in 1851 with very similar designs, taken from the Zeitschrift des bayerischen Verseins zur Ausbildung der Gewerke, Vol. 1851, Issue 4, see here. The set was always treasured, but was also worn with pleasure during its lifetime, as evidenced by several minor restorations; among other things, the earrings were reworked into clip earrings. We discovered the set near Frankfurt am Main. For dating see, among others, Brigitte Marquardt: Schmuckellerie. Realismus und Historismus. 1850-1895. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Munich 1998, p. 61f. and also p. 170; also David Bennet and Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery, Woodbridge 2010, p.126ff.

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I look for the blue flower, I search and never find it, I dream that in the flower My good fortune blooms for me. I wander with my harp Through countries, cities and meadows, If nowhere in the round To see the blue flower. I've been wandering for a long time, Have long hoped, trusted, But alas, nowhere have I seen Seen the blue flower. Joseph von Eichendorff: The blue flower, 1818

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Blue Flowers

€ 4,390.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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