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Colorful Silver Brooch with Precious Stones, Probably British India, c. 1880

€ 2,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Colorful Silver Brooch with Precious Stones, Probably British India, c. 1880

Description

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This brooch surprises with its extraordinary colorfulness. A whole dozen sparkling colored stones in purple and yellow, pink and green, red and blue compete with each other. They are set on a large, oval brooch made of lightly gold-plated silver, which is designed in the shape of a brooch. Pieces of jewelry in rich colors are encountered again and again in the history of jewellery. Especially in the Rococo period, people loved colorful pieces of jewelry. The works known as "harlequin" designs usually allowed a magnificent garden of flowers and blossoms to unfold before the eyes. Colorful "giardinetti rings" (from the Italian for "little gardens") are also among the appealing pieces of this period. They often feature small blossoms and bouquets of flowers with colorful gemstones and diamonds or arrangements set in a basket, vase or pot. However, even if the colorfulness of the many gemstones used is reminiscent of European Rococo, the workmanship of the brooch suggests that it was not made in Europe, but probably in India or Ceylon, in the 19th century, in one of the British colonies of the time. Almost all of the gemstones used also come from this part of the world: sapphires and tourmalines, a topaz and a zircon, garnets, a coral and an unusual sinhalite, a gemstone named after the Sanskrit name for Sri Lanka, "sinhala". The shape of the brooch, oval, convex, with a large oval stone in the middle, corresponds to European jewelry from around 1870. We assume that the brooch was made in the following decades for a European buyer. We discovered it in Nuremberg and had an independent certificate made for the gemstones.

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Between East and West

€ 2,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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