Bed of Roses

Large Antique Aventurine and Silver Brooch, c. 1910


€ 298.00 *
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Large Antique Aventurine and Silver Brooch, c. 1910
Large Antique Aventurine and Silver Brooch, c. 1910
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A rose is a rose is a rose... When Gertrude Stein lyrically evoked the image of the rose in her famous poem "Sacred Emily" in 1913, she was looking back on a long tradition of depicting nature in the arts - a tradition in which the rose in particular was charged with meaning. Especially in the Art Nouveau style of the immediate past, plant motifs of leaves and blossoms were preferred themes in art. They were seen to symbolize the forces of nature - the eternal growth and decay. This large German Art Nouveau brooch is also dedicated to the rose. A large, oval-cut aventurine is surrounded by an openwork frame of lightly gilded silver, elegantly forging two densely filled roses in intertwined foliage. So-called "stone jewelry" with large semi-precious stones in silver was very fashionable in the years around 1910. This artistic jewelry was not based on the preciousness of the jewels used, but instead focused on the beauty of the materials. It thus met the Art Nouveau demand for democratic art, as it was affordable for a wide range of buyers. Stone jewelry was so popular that the Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung devoted several issues to it. Regarding the artistic principles of such jewellery, it states: "The composition is based with preference and artistic justification on the principle of framing, of encompassing." (DGZ, No. 19, 1910, p. 165f.)
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Large Antique Aventurine and Silver Brooch, c. 1910
Bed of Roses
€ 298.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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