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Expressive Art Déco Ring with Emerald & Diamond in Gold, c. 1925

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Expressive Art Déco Ring with Emerald & Diamond in Gold, c. 1925

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

The Art Deco era in Germany not only produced white, geometric jewelry, but also pieces whose imaginative and sometimes bizarre shapes were inspired by Expressionism. For the most part, these pieces of jewelry were not the so-called evening jewels, which consisted of platinum and large diamonds, but rather wearable pieces for the course of the day, which looked like inventive little works of art and were made of warm yellow gold. The ring presented here is such a piece, it is a "vegetable ring", named after the design of its ring face, which is reminiscent of a small garden. This type of ring enjoyed great popularity in Germany from the 1920s until the middle of the century. Here, the lines are clearly oriented towards Expressionism, with jagged, dynamic lines and wildly proliferating plant forms. Such bizarre, abstracted natural forms can be found not only in the jewellery of those years, but in all the arts: compare, for example, the grilles and decorative paintings of the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, rebuilt in 1926/28, or the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, 1926/27. Here, the plant forms are placed on a rectangular gold surface. An old-cut diamond, probably from an older piece of jewelry, and an intensely green emerald from Colombia are framed as if they were glowing flowers. The expressive design spirit is continued in every detail, even the side gallery shows geometric shapes. It is also beautiful how different shades of color are achieved here using different gold alloys: The surface of the rectangle is made of yellow gold, the frame of rose gold and individual berries shimmer in white gold. The hallmark confirms that the handcrafted ring was made in Germany. We discovered it here in Berlin.

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€ 2,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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