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Chic Art Déco Brooch with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, c. 1930

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Chic Art Déco Brooch with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, c. 1930

Description

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

With the end of the First World War, classical modernism had finally dawned - the "long 19th century" was over. Contemporaries consciously believed they were living in a new, more modern era. Dresses showed leg, the corset had given way to loose cuts, long hair was radically cut off - because now people wore bobbed heads. Of course, the jewellery also had to correspond to this feeling of the times, because: "The jewellery must also be in keeping with the type of dress, and it takes a particularly confident and cultivated taste today not to commit any stylistic irregularities in this direction." This is what the gentle reader could read in the magazine "Die Dame" in 1925. The first owner of this antique brooch probably once demonstrated confident and cultivated taste. It is designed as an elongated rhombus and is quite simple in its outline in order to place the focus entirely on the filigree workmanship. In the center are three beautiful old-cut diamonds of around half a carat. Jagged ornaments and shadow gaps have been cut into the metal by hand. Together with smaller diamond roses and millegrains, the result is a design that is typical of the Art Deco style that prevailed in the Weimar Republic. Incidentally, the material of the brooch is also very modern: it is made of white gold, which was only patented in Germany in 1912. It caused quite a stir at the time. The early, slightly yellowish white gold is usually covered with a layer of platinum on top, and we can see this here too. Not only the design and the diamond cut, but also the combination of materials reveal the age of this beautiful brooch.

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