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Stylish "Retro" Ring With Diamond & Synthetic Sapphires In Platinum & Gold, USA Circa 1930

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Stylish "Retro" Ring With Diamond & Synthetic Sapphires In Platinum & Gold, USA Circa 1930

Description

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The 1920s brought a new style to the world of jewellery with Art Déco. The longer and wider the style spread, the more the forms developed. In France and the USA, a special form of late Art Déco, known as "retro" jewelry, emerged in the years after 1930: The shapes became stronger, more physical, the volumes larger and the jewellery once again more magnificent, with the colorfulness of the stones and metal used playing a major role. This ring dates from around 1930 and speaks the design language of its time. The ring is set across the finger. An old-cut diamond is set in the center. A carrée of millegrains frames the gemstone. A synthetic sapphire in a trapezoid shape is set to the left and right. The colored gemstones are also surrounded by millegrains. Delineated by a shadow gap, the ring face follows its setting with a smoothly polished frame. The stones and the frame are made of white platinum, giving the design a cool color. Synthetic sapphires and rubies were very fashionable in the first decades of the 20th century. Auguste Verneuil developed the technology for their production in 1891. Verneuil's laboratory-developed rubies were almost indistinguishable from natural stones in terms of structure and color and became the dernier cri of the fashion world, making jewelry set with large stones more affordable - such syntheses were encountered again and again up until the Art Deco years. When viewed from the side, ornaments appear like abstract tendrils and delicate grooves separate the lower band from the rest of the ring band. The lower band and the ring band are made of high-carat gold and give the cool design a pleasant warmth. The ring, which was created in the USA around 1930, came to us here in Berlin and has been beautifully preserved to this day.

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"Today's synthetic stones are technological masterpieces that can often only be distinguished from real stones after a laborious examination, even by experts. Particularly popular among these artistic creations are spinels in the color of aquamarine with their enchanting clarity and translucency. Set in real silver, the maturity of the rings in real gold, they arouse undivided admiration!" From a jewellery catalog from 1939

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€ 890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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