Fibula Aurea

Large Granulated Disc Brooch with Moonstones, c. 1930s

€ 1,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Large Granulated Disc Brooch with Moonstones, c. 1930s

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 use of elegant, beautiful, magnificent or even just unusual brooches as ornaments and jewellery for clothing is not a modern idea. Even in antiquity, indeed in the earliest civilizations, fibula brooches can be traced to hold fabrics together on the body. However, the shape of the fibulae was not merely functional: they were also immediately understood as a piece of jewelry and designed accordingly. The brooch in use today is therefore the youngest child of this tradition, which once began with very practical bronze objects. And now and again, the pieces of jewellery that we present to you in our selection are also reminiscent of those fibulae from the earliest times: Because some forms have a longer life the more catchy and convincing they are. This brooch, for example, takes inspiration from the disc fibulae of the 6th or 7th centuries – and yet the individual shapes are clearly indebted to their time of origin in the 1930s. The brooch is made of shimmering gold and is designed as a slightly curved shield set with a total of nine light blue moonstones. A round moonstone is set in the center and finely sawn openings lead to eight further moonstones, which are set regularly as oval cabochons. The surfaces of the frosted brooch are adorned with small gold beads that have come together to form tiny flower and pyramid shapes. The details of the design are executed using a goldsmith's technique that is rarely used today because it is so difficult to master: granulation. In this originally Etruscan goldsmith technique, tiny gold beads are soldered onto a sheet of gold in such a way that they are only connected to each other at their respective tiny points of contact. The difficulty with this technique is finding the exact melting point: Because if the granulation beads get just a tiny bit too hot, all the work melts away. Around 1920, Johann Michael Wilm in Munich was one of the first German goldsmiths to produce granulations that stood up to comparison with their antique counterparts in the 20th century. Elisabeth Treskow then began producing granulations of a high design standard in Essen around 1930. This technique was very popular among German artist goldsmiths until the 1950s. Our brooch is not signed, but it is masterfully and completely handcrafted. We discovered this exciting object in Würzburg.

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Fibula Aurea

€ 1,590.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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