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Magnificent Late Art Deco Brooch With Burma Rubies In Gold, Great Britain Circa 1940

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Magnificent Late Art Deco Brooch With Burma Rubies In Gold, Great Britain Circa 1940

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Glowing red rubies and gleaming gold form two paradisiacal blossoms. Large, curved leaves, vibrant with life, open up to present the precious stones. Their intense, slightly pink red colour is unique. These are untreated rubies from Burma. The classic, consistently highest-rated origin for rubies This brooch was hallmarked in Great Britain around 1940 and speaks the design language of late Art Deco, also known as "Retro Style" in English-speaking countries. The fashion for bright, white geometries changed to yellow-gold, more pasty designs. Like this blossom. The decoration of the brooch is precious due to the rubies, while the low fineness of the gold of nine carats is surprising. This is probably due to the scarcity of precious metals during the war. The rubies are probably from an old heirloom and have found a new use here. Because even in difficult times, one should not do without beauty in life!

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One of the most beautiful and typical pieces of Art Deco jewelry is the clip. Cartier, Boucheron and Van Cleef and Arpels produced extravagant, precious pieces, mostly set with diamonds, in Paris from the late 1920s onwards, and goldsmiths all over the world soon followed suit. The special thing about this new type of brooch was that it could no longer be worn just on the lapel, but anywhere on the dress, on the belt, on the bag and even in the hair. Often worn as a pair, but also individually, they could be used to create surprising accents that were previously impossible. At the time of their introduction, the shape of the clips was initially flat and the surfaces were richly set with diamonds. In the course of the 1930s, increasingly voluminous, geometric shapes came into fashion. Yellow gold also replaced the previously favored white gold, in line with the general trend of Art Deco. Towards the end of the 1930s, one last innovation before the upheaval of the Great War was the redesign of the back mount. Whereas previously a single large plate with a spring mechanism had been fitted, two interconnected pins were now used. For the history of the clip, see David Bennett/Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery, Woodbridge 2010, pp. 322-325, with numerous illustrations.

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