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Large Butterfly Brooch With Corals & Marcasia By Theodor Fahrner, 1950s

€ 390.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Large Butterfly Brooch With Corals & Marcasia By Theodor Fahrner, 1950s

Description

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"The beauty of clothing is enhanced to an extraordinary degree by the distinctive effect of Fahrner jewellery. No lady of taste will want to do without it in the future." (From a brochure of the company Theodor Fahrner from the 1920s) In the history of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery, Fahrner jewellery from Pforzheim occupies a special place. Theodor Fahrner and later his successor Gustav Braendle knew how to make artistically convincing designs and high-quality workmanship the hallmark of their brooches, necklaces, bracelets and earrings like hardly any other modern jewellery manufacturer. Theodor Fahrner made artists' jewellery affordable by combining modern forms with democratic materials. He did not create individual pieces for a small elite like Lalique or Cartier, but the designs were mass-produced in silver, decorated with enamel, marcasites and occasionally precious stones. Jewellers and department stores throughout Europe sold the jewellery, which Fahrner advertised extensively in journals and magazines: "Fahrner jewellery - based on designs by the best artists" allowed every woman to participate in a modern life full of beauty. Every year, traveling salesmen with large sample cases presented the new products developed in Pforzheim to local jewelers. One such sample case full of unworn Fahrner jewellery had lain untouched in an attic for the last 40 years or more until it was offered to us. It contained samples of nearly every series from about 1919 until the company's dissolution in 1979, most marked with a model number or the "Original Fahrner" seal. The brooch presented here is from this collection. It is therefore unworn and perfectly preserved. The brooch shows up as designed as a large circle with a large butterfly adorning the center. The wings of the butterfly are set with four small coral cabochons. With its antennae and small delicate legs, the butterfly holds on to many six-pointed stars, the center of which is adorned with small marcasite roses. Despite the size of the brooch, it is light because it is filigree and partially openwork. The brooch was probably executed in the 1950s, but it still speaks the formal language of the previous era of late Art Deco and is a particularly rare example from the Reperatoire Fahrners. A wonderful overview of the wealth of designs is offered in the catalogueue "Theodor Fahrner. Schmuck zwischen Avantgarde und Tradition", edited by Brigitte Leonhardt and Dieter Zühlsdorff, Stuttgart 2005. Discover all the other pieces of Fahrner jewellery we offer here.

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€ 390.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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