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Granulated Midcentury Gold Ring with Australian Opal, Germany, c. 1950s

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Granulated Midcentury Gold Ring with Australian Opal, Germany, c. 1950s

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

This ring demonstrates an ancient goldsmith's technique of exceptional craftsmanship that is rarely used today. Because it is so incredibly difficult to master, most goldsmiths of our time do not dare to produce pieces of jewelry like this: We are talking about granulation. In this originally Etruscan goldsmith technique, tiny gold or silver beads are soldered onto a precious metal and only joined together at their respective tiny points of contact. Light and shadow on the granulated surfaces create a three-dimensional effect - and this is precisely what makes granulation work so appealing. The difficulty with this technique is to precisely match the melting point of the granulation beads, as if they get just a little too hot, they immediately melt away. In the 20th century, this technique experienced another renaissance in Germany. In the early 1920s, Johann Michael Wilm in Munich was one of the first goldsmiths to produce granulations that stood up to comparison with their antique counterparts. Elisabeth Treskow also began her production at a high level of design in Essen in the same years. We can find pieces of German jewelry using this technique right up until the 1950s. This yellow gold ring features a central Australian full opal with a beautiful play of colors. The stone is set into an oval ring face and set in a curved frame. This slope is covered with tiny granulation spheres that form a band of small pyramids, creating a beautiful interplay of light and shadow all around. The ring is an unusual piece of jewellery from the German post-war period. Created in the 1950s using the now rare technique of granulation, it came to us here in Berlin.

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€ 1,290.00 ^*

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