Large Vintage Brooch With Burmese Rubies & Diamonds in Gold, Probably

This brooch is designed as a large bouquet of flowers, a vibrant bouquet in red and gold. Eight blossoms, each consisting of a ruby amidst petals of high-carat gold, are united in a luminous arrangement. Their stems, tied together, shine out from under the flowers on the left. One of the stems is made of white gold and set with small diamonds that sparkle in the light. The design of the brooch is a typical child of the years around 1970. First of all, there is the asymmetrical composition of the brooch, which is designed as a loosely tied bouquet of flowers. This was still rather rare in the first half of the 20th century: The vast majority of brooches for everyday wear were of a basic symmetrical shape, as they were worn centered on the collar of a blouse. It was not until the post-war period that the now common way of wearing brooches under the shoulder became established. This asymmetrical placement provided the perfect setting for asymmetrical shapes such as the brooch shown here. The structure of the gold is even more typical of the years around 1970. Yellow and white gold were textured in different ways and worked side by side to create a detailed impression. The demand was no longer for purely shiny, polished gold surfaces, but for those that played with light and shadow through their surface structure and thus exploited all facets of the gold colors. Surfaces like grains of sand were sometimes seen - sometimes reminiscent of veins in leaves or other natural structures, sometimes completely abstract. These were designs that had never before been seen in any era of jewellery history. And finally, the colors suggest that the brooch was created around 1970. Warm yellow gold and intensely bright rubies corresponded to the taste of the time, which had clearly turned away from the cool, white look of the 1960s. The fact that precious rubies from Burma were also used here shows the high regard in which this design was held. The brooch is a large, colorful and wonderful testimony to an optimistic era - a small greeting from a warm summer.

Estimate:£2,964.51

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