Antique Art Nouveau golden brooch with 0.85ct diamonds, Germany, circa 1900s.

A unique necklace in the Art Nouveau style with a sophisticated form, characteristic of this era. The necklace is set with old-cut diamonds, 5 pink tourmalines and two beautiful gree...

Beautiful golden bar brooch with elements of platinum, set with diamonds of a total weight of about 0.07ct and rubies of a total weight of 0.48ct origin : Spain, early 20th century ...

Old classic, very feminine earrings in the form of a diamond daisy Made of 0.585 yellow gold They come from the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries....

Elegant gold brooch with diamonds from the early 20th century. Made of 18 carat white gold with platinum elements. The central point of this elegant jewelry is the main diamond weigh...

Antique gold brooch with elements of platinum with pearl and diamonds Centrally set saltwater cultured pearl and 16 diamonds with a total weight of about 2.7 ct (color G-I purity SI...

An antique brooch with 28 diamonds in old Dutch rosette cuts (round, irregular shape) set in a filigree floral form in a circle, in the realism trend of the mid-19th century. Natural...

Art Nouveau Brooch Vienna, made c. 1900 14 Carat Gold / 585 (checked) Yellow Gold, covered with enamel as well as with many small diamonds (vintage cuts / circa 0.40 carat i...

Art Nouveau 1.2ct Diamond 18K Gold Brooch circa 1900 Magnificent Art Nouveau brooch made of high-quality gold in the form of an openwork cartouche made of very fine leaf tendrils an...

Finest golden brooch with various diamonds - vintage cuts (0.50 ct). This piece of jewellery is of most elegant appearance, looking like stylized flower's blossoms with leaves (ret...

Vintage art nouveau circa 1900s Profile of a women brooch pin. Lovely lady in a bonnet. You can attach a chain to the back to wear as a pendant. Crafted i...

18ct gold & silver set Art Nouveau Diamond Opal Pendant/Brooch dated circa 1900 Five round opals with an articulated pear shaped opal drop, very well matched with lively play of colours and iridescence in reds, greens, blues and gold. Set in 18 carat yellow gold claw collets Two main transitional cut (old mine) diamonds 0.70ct. Mix of old mine and rose cut diamonds in an 18 carat yellow gold with “silver Set” channel setting , approx 1 ct total. G/H/I, VS2-SI2. Total diamond weight: approx 1.7carats Setting diamonds in gold with a thin layer of silver, “silver set”, was a technique used in the Georgian/Victorian/Art Nouveau period as white coloured gold and platinum were not yet available. A very thin layer of silver was applied to the gold, on which the diamonds were set, to show them off to their best advantage (as the yellow would reflect and distort the white colour of the diamonds). The Art Nouveau period was a short lived but worldwide movement which reached its peak at the end of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th Century. It had its roots in the Pre Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain in the 1860’s. Artists, such as William Morris, took their inspiration from the flora and fauna of nature and rejected the mass industrialisation and mechanisation of the Victorian age. Art Nouveau continued with this theme and has a distinctive appearance with soft, curved shapes and lines and often depicted natural designs such as flowers, birds and the female form. Before the Art Nouveau period, the emphasis had been to design pieces with an emphasis on gem stones, diamonds, rubies emeralds etc. However, during the Art Nouveau period, jewellers adopted the idea of using other semi–precious stones “from nature” such as agate, garnet opal, moonstone, aquamarine and experimented with a wide variety of new techniques e.g. enamelling. The “New Art” style became a worldwide movement encompassing all disciplines of the arts, and world class artists as far afield as Gaudi with his “modernisme” architecture in Spain, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York with objects, Galle Glass in France and the Liberty & Co Archibald Knox designs in Britain, Jugendstil in Northern Europe and Faberge in Russia. The movement flared brightly but briefly and by 1910 it was already going out of style to be replaced by Art Deco. In fitted period box. Detachable 18ct brooch...

Signed Art Nouveau gold brooch set with rose cut diamonds. Set with eleven round rose cut diamonds in closed back grain settings with a combined approximate weight of 0.06 carats, to...