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Cute Bar Brooch With a Cloverleaf of Diamonds, Circa 1890 & Later


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Cute Bar Brooch With a Cloverleaf of Diamonds, Circa 1890 & Later
Cute Bar Brooch With a Cloverleaf of Diamonds, Circa 1890 & Later
Description
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A special form of jewellery became popular in the late 19th century: the bar brooch. High-necked dresses with lavish lace collars, elegant scarves and shawls offered many possible uses for the pin, which was intended to make the useful look pretty. As early as 1879, bar pins were considered "the most popular jewellery item, as they are as useful as they are decorative. They are used for a wide variety of purposes, from fastening lace scarves to securing hair at the back of the head." This piece is a representative of this type of jewellery and is as useful as it is decorative. A small shamrock is applied to a smooth, narrow gold brooch, which shimmers in the light of four small diamonds. These are rose-cut diamonds, which have a very special, unique brilliance. This cut was already known in the Renaissance, but today it has largely fallen into oblivion. The flower with the diamonds was probably created in the late 19th century as a decorative piece for a pin. It was then mounted on the brooch only a little later, probably in the first decades after 1900. We discovered the pin as it is in the Rhineland. It is in very good condition. The quote from [Anon.:] "Bizarre Jewelry", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 19, 1879, no p. (p. 2).
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Cute Bar Brooch With a Cloverleaf of Diamonds, Circa 1890 & Later
Beautiful and Useful
€ 389.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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