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Rare Pearl Necklace with Golden Topazes in Cannetille, circa 1825 & later

€ 11,890.00 ^*

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Rare Pearl Necklace with Golden Topazes in Cannetille, circa 1825 & later

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Four large elements of shimmering gold filigree make up the necklace here, elegantly connected by ten rows of shimmering pearls each. Radiant natural topazes are embedded in the finely spun gold. They glow warmly and make the golden shapes look like rare blossoms from faraway lands. The necklace has reached us in its case specially made for the piece. In its lid we read in gold letters on purple silk "A.nne M.on Marret & Beaugrand / VEVER / Rue de la Paix, 19, / PARIS". In jewellery history, the name Vever is primarily associated with Henri Vever (1854-1942), whose three-volume "Bijouterie française au XIXe siècle" still forms the standard work on 19th century French jewellery. However, it was Henri's father Jean-Jacques Ernest who gave his name to the Maison Vever. In 1870, he and his family, including their then 16-year-old son Henri, moved from Metz to Paris, where he took over the long-established and renowned jewelry store Marret & Beaugrand at 19 rue de Paix. Since the name Vever was still new in Paris at the time, the company initially operated under the combined name of the two firms. Therefore, the case cannot have been made before 1870. The necklace, on the other hand, is much older - according to its manufacture in the period around 1825. Apparently, it was sold as an antique in the Vever house. Henri Vever in particular showed great interest in the jewellery of previous generations. It is the four golden ornamental elements of the necklace which are works of the 1820s. They are made of cannetille filigree, which reached the highest popularity in the decade between 1820 and 1830. Small and detailed, the production of this filigree was time-consuming and labor-intensive. In those days, however, handwork was cheaper than the precious metal gold, so large, resplendent designs were made in many hours of work with relatively little material. At the same time as the Cannetille, the proverbial golden age of topaz had also dawned: The Imperial Topaz was bedded with preference in the fine filigree. From today's jewellery we are almost only familiar with the heavily treated blue topaz, but in the early 19th century people loved the gemstone in its natural shades of gold and pink. These stones came to Europe from the Brazilian mines near Ouro Preto via Portugal. In the house of Vever, the necklace was probably refurbished once before it was sold. Probably from this time came the fine, but strongly reduced strands of antique artificial pearls between the elements of gold, with which the necklace came to us. We have replaced the artificial pearls with more durable cultured pearls of the same size. Originally, they were either pearl or fine gold necklaces as well. So the necklace is now wonderfully wearable again and tells of the fascination that historical jewellery already exerted on earlier generations.

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€ 11,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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