Dancing in the Moonlight

Antique Orientalist Gold Brooch with approx. 4.10 ct Diamonds, c. 1890

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Antique Orientalist Gold Brooch with approx. 4.10 ct Diamonds, c. 1890

Description

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A crescent moon shines out at us with this brooch made of reddish gold and 25 fine old-cut diamonds. We feel transported to a balmy summer night. Just like today, people in the years around 1890 - at the end of an eventful century full of technical innovations - longed for the tranquil, peaceful and at the same time adventurously exotic distance, as an escape from the constraints of life in the present. Glittering diamonds of excellent quality and perfect composition have come together here to form a crescent moon. Pieces of jewelry with symbols such as the star and crescent moon are evidence of the oriental fashion of the mid-19th century. Unlike in previous centuries - the Turks were still standing outside Vienna in the 18th century - the Ottoman Empire was no longer seen as a threat, but as a desirable, foreign and exotic counterpart. Especially after Prussia's alliance with the Ottomans in the Crimean War of the 1850s, people loved the Orient with all its foreign characteristics, which was then extensively traveled and explored. Pieces of jewelry such as this brooch illustrate this Orientalism, just like the large paintings at the art exhibitions of these years. The moon is wonderfully preserved and came to us from the Rhineland.

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In the late 19th century, especially in the years around 1890, we find numerous photographs, drawings and paintings with the motif of the crescent moon. For example, the so-called "paper moon", a crescent moon cut out of cardboard or wood, was a popular prop for traveling photography studios. Most people at the time did not yet have their own camera and usually had themselves photographed sitting on the moon at fairs, and many of these photographs have survived to this day as collector's items.

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Dancing in the Moonlight

€ 8,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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