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Delicate Red Gold Necklace with Green Tourmalines & Pearls, Great Britain c. 1905


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Delicate Red Gold Necklace with Green Tourmalines & Pearls, Great Britain c. 1905
Delicate Red Gold Necklace with Green Tourmalines & Pearls, Great Britain c. 1905
Description
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At the turn of the century around 1900, goldsmiths attempted to free themselves from the previously repetitive ornamentation of historicism. One solution seemed to be to concentrate more and more on abstract designs that would develop their appeal without recourse to the forms of the past. One result of these efforts are so-called "wire cage" settings, which hold gemstones or pearls in delicate golden struts that resemble small cages. In this necklace, bottle-green drop-shaped tourmalines and baroque pearls are held in delicate rose gold settings that wind gracefully around the gemstones. They are graduated in size and mounted on a slender, red gold chain. The resulting necklace was highly fashionable at the beginning of the 20th century. The use of tourmalines, which were traded as semi-precious stones at the time, and the deliberately imperfect pearls, which were intended to lend the piece of jewelry an artistic character, also played a role here. According to its hallmark, the piece of jewelry was created in Great Britain. We were able to discover it in London.
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Delicate Red Gold Necklace with Green Tourmalines & Pearls, Great Britain c. 1905
Golden Cage
€ 1,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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