The Pleasure of Life

Large Art Deco Gold Opal Ring, Germany ca. 1935

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Large Art Deco Gold Opal Ring, Germany ca. 1935

Description

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The delight in expressive geometry that characterizes the design of this ring refers to the turbulent era of Art Deco. Since the beginning of the 1920s, designers throughout Europe had repeatedly dared to play with clear geometries in order to overcome the loveliness of Art Nouveau. While the first designs were mostly filigree and white, coolly gleaming in platinum and diamonds, the fashion changed from around 1930 to yellow-gold, more expansive works. In English-speaking countries, a more precise distinction is made here between Art Deco (the ethereal, white jewellery of the first phase) and so-called Retro Jewellery, i.e. the sculptural designs of the period from 1930 onwards. Such a ring of the 1930s is presented here and is shown in two-tone gold. While the ring band and the body are made of slightly reddish gold, the overlays, which are applied to the hammered surface and decorate the slightly bulbous ring face, are made of yellow gold. The stylized plant forms we see here are also found in contemporary architecture and fashion. Compare, for example, the grilles and decorative paintings of the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, rebuilt 1926-1928, or the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, 1926/27. These new forms seemed appropriate to the goldsmiths of the 1920s in the age of automobiles, skyscrapers, and express trains. Plant forms now grew upward as ornaments in slender, jagged shapes, lightning flashed across wallpaper as a reference to the electricity that was now used everywhere, and people's bodies also slimmed down and grew in paintings and graphic art. As the center of our one-of-a-kind retro ring, a large cabochon-cut opal is set in place, displaying a soft play of colours primarily in shades of green-blue and red. The ring found us here in Berlin and looks like a small sculpture on the finger.

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A dreamlike stone, the opal, whose special brilliance was already praised in the highest terms by the ancient author Pliny at the beginning of the era: "it has a fire, finer than that of carbuncle, it possesses the purple spark of amethyst and the sea-green of emerald and a generally incredible mixture of light". As a stone of dazzling love and auspicious hope, the following centuries have also revered it.

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The Pleasure of Life

€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Unit price €1,490.00 / piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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