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Elegant Garland Style Necklace with Aquamarine, Diamonds & Pearl, France ca. 1907


€ 6,390.00 *
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Elegant Garland Style Necklace with Aquamarine, Diamonds & Pearl, France ca. 1907
Elegant Garland Style Necklace with Aquamarine, Diamonds & Pearl, France ca. 1907
Description
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A pastel blue aquamarine swings beneath a meander ornament, topped with a bow; below, a moving garland is suspended, set with glittering diamonds and completed by a baroque natural pearl. The style of the pendant here recaptures the serene, courtly elegance of Marie Antoinette's time. It was the predominant inspiration for high quality diamond jewellery in the early 20th century: it is also referred to as the "Garland Style" because of the laurel garlands. A special feature of the pendant is the combination of the gold meander band with the white shiny leaves and the bow. It allows to date the pendant even more precisely, because this motif seems to have been developed shortly after 1905. Comparable designs can be found, for example, in the French magazine Le Bijou of 1906/07, which published modern jewellery designs as inspiration for goldsmiths. Design books always contain the most modern designs of the time, while the offers and catalogs of the jewellers usually also contained well-tried models. The fact that this type of design was then also produced and sold well over the next few years, we then see in an advertisement of the Gourdin brothers from Hanau from 1909 in the Deutsche Goldschmiedezeitung. Here, a very similar piece of jewellery is the focus of the ad. This piece of jewellery was also made between 1905 and 1910. It is wonderfully preserved. We were able to discover it in Miami, but according to its hallmark it was made in France - perhaps inspired by such designs as published in Le Bijou. A wearable and not least beautiful testimony to the times.
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Elegant Garland Style Necklace with Aquamarine, Diamonds & Pearl, France ca. 1907
Le Bijou
€ 6,390.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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