French 1900 Art Nouveau Orchid Pendant Brooch In 18Kt With Diamonds Pearl

Edwardian art nouveau enamel flowers pendant-brooch. This is a really fantastic three-dimensional antique brooch with flowers, created in ...

Art nouveau enamel Orchid pendant-brooch. An exceptional, oversized and three-dimensional pendant brooch, created in America during the Edwardian and the Art Nouveau periods, back i...

Art Nouveau Plique à jour pendant brooch. A exceptional piece, created during the Art Nouveau period, back in the 1890. Surely It was crafted in Austria or Germany with the difficul...

An art nouveau Griffin brooch designed by Gaston Lafitte. An incredible piece of art created around the 1890, during the art nouveau period in Paris Fr...

This impressive Art Nouveau Diamond brooch pendant is 1890 ca Sensual, sinuous lines expertly carved from rich 18 KT gold, contraste...

This exquisite sculpture was carved in luxuriously luminescent blue chalcedony by American lapidary master Steve Walters. The drama in this piece of jewelry cannot be overstated; the large scale of the exquisite chalcedony and the gorgeous movement of the carving combine for an exceptional piece of wearable art. The chalcedony is an intense natural blue color, and it exhibits a high degree of translucency. A gorgeous diamond, set in platinum, is perfectly nestled into the carving. The removable French Polynesian gray pearl is the perfect accessory for this dramatic piece. The hand-fabricated 18kt mounting allows this piece to be worn as a brooch, or hung from a wide variety of necklaces, including pearls. -Blue Chalcedony (natural, carved by Steve Walters) -French Polynesian Gray Pearl -0.75ct Diamond -18kt Gold and Platinum -sculpture is approximately 70mm x 25mm (2.76" x 0.98") -removable pearl adds an additional 15mm in length (0.59") -wear as either a brooch or a necklace enhancer/pendant -product number: AG-19 -made in the USA by Dalan Hargrave...

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. Detachable 18ct brooch...

Magnificent antique piece from the late 19th century, circa 1880. Crafted in 18k yellow Gold. The central panel is carefully painted with applications of enamel featuring the portrait of a lady. Accented with 31 Old mine Diamonds weighing approximately 0.62 carats. G-H graded color. This Art Nouveau...