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Hand-Wrought Silver Bracelet in Flower Shapes, Karl Karst, Circa 1940

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Hand-Wrought Silver Bracelet in Flower Shapes, Karl Karst, Circa 1940

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At the turn of the 20th century, industrialization had also reached jewellery production and flooded the market with machine-made mass-produced goods of sometimes questionable quality. As a counter-movement, a number of jewellery designers sought to revive the original and sophisticated goldsmith's craft and to counter the mass-produced items with unique pieces. Renowned artists such as Elisabeth Treskow and Johann Michael Wilm experimented with almost forgotten craft techniques such as granulation and created works that were as expressive as they were unique, adding a new facet to the art of their time. Six stylized flowers are chased from silver, each showing four leaves arranged evenly around a round hallmark. They are linked together with small links and form a simple but impressive bracelet. Small hammer marks can be seen on the surface of the flowers, which were deliberately left visible as martelization and used as a stylistic device by the goldsmith. Jewellery such as this, with its visible handwork, sets a counterpoint to the many industrially manufactured pieces that were created in the first half of the 20th century. According to the signature on the back of the bracelet, it was made in the Karl Karst manufactory in Pforzheim, which was active between 1914 and 1961. Based on its design language and the silver with a fineness of 80%, we date the bracelet to around 1940. 800 silver was mainly used for silver cutlery and silver vessels in Germany in those years. It is therefore possible that Karst melted existing silver cutlery in times of shortage, rolled it into sheets and forged jewellery from it. This work came to us from Karl Karst in Munich. On the Karl Karst company, see Wolgang Glüber et al. (eds.): Alltagstauglich - Schmuck von Jugendstil bis Art Déco, Die Sammlung Ratz-Coradazzi, exhibition catalog of the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt 2019, p. 139.

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