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Elegant Bow Brooch With Sapphire Blue & White Glass Pastes, Around 1920

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Elegant Bow Brooch With Sapphire Blue & White Glass Pastes, Around 1920

Description

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The bow has accompanied the history of jewellery for a long time. Corsage ornaments with large bows, set with glass stones or even diamonds, were already worn by the beauties of the Rococo period on their brocade dresses. Then, around 1850, the bow was interpreted as a plastically folded ribbon, corporeal and ornamental. Elegant brooches with a bow motif were also created in the early 20th century. In keeping with the taste of the time, the simple basic form of the bow and its ribbons were often filled with openwork, lace-like details. The present brooch also appears to be woven from lace. Sparkling white and variously cut blue stones sit close together in fine milgrain settings. What shines here like diamonds and sapphires is glass, but it has been cut and set with the same craftsmanship as real gemstones. The sophisticated design is crafted to move at the bottom, so the bands at the bottom swing when worn. Two imitation pearls swing from the unequal length ends of the looped bands. The brooch is in very good condition. A wonderful piece of jewellery from a time when even costume jewellery still met high quality standards.

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As early as 1734, Georges-Frédéric Stras had developed a particularly sparkling variant of lead glass in Paris, which quickly became widespread: the "rhinestone" still known today was born. As a substitute for real jewels, it was used for travel jewellery. But as time went by, glass pastes were considered jewels in their own right as early as the 18th century - for example, because they made it possible to produce particularly large colored stones and rich trimmings that would hardly have been possible any other way. In the last years of the 19th century, glass paste jewellery flourished once again, as society demanded white jewels: For pieces of jewellery that presented countless diamonds set in silver, gladly in combination with luminous, precious coloured stones. However, the surface-covering setting with diamonds and coloured stones was correspondingly expensive: those who wanted to be at the forefront of this fashion without immediately investing large sums of money initially wore so-called glass pastes, with whose sparkle the white brilliance of the diamonds could be deceptively imitated.

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€ 690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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