Antique Bar Brooch with Old-Cut Diamonds and Pearls in White Gold, c. 1925

Around 0.30 carats of sparkling diamonds and two softly shimmering pearls are lined up next to each other. Meticulously hand-cut arabesques play around the white shades of the gemstone display side and soften the strict shape of the bar brooch. The design of the brooch is timeless – but how modern its materials were in its time! The brooch is forged from high-carat white gold. It was not until 1912 that the German company Dr. Richter & Cie. from Pforzheim succeeded in producing white gold - the so-called "white gold Dorico", a minor sensation at the time. Its invention had become necessary due to the high price of platinum and the continuing popularity of white jewels. "White is the watchword today, white is fashionable", the Leipzig watchmaker's newspaper announced about the new white gold in 1912. The setting of fine, full-round cultured pearls with a rosy luster was also a sensation in the early 1920s. Mikimoto cultured pearls from Japan were first available to European goldsmiths in 1921, and only slightly earlier in the USA. Prior to this, pearl divers had had to retrieve oysters from the bottom of the ocean: Not every oyster had a pearl on it, and not every pearl had the desired color and size. Pearl farming thus opened up completely new possibilities for the jewellery world. This beautiful brooch is in very good condition. According to its hallmark, it was made in Germany. It came to us here in Berlin.

Estimate:£1,081.7

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