Art Deco emerald pendant, 18k gold, cabochon cut Emerald approx. 46.7 ct measures: 29.1 x 22.2 x 10.3mm, framed by two pieces of cut ivory, onyx and 2 triangle-cut diamonds. CITES permit is included.
Pendant dimensions approx. 1.97″ / 50mm x 1.3″ / 33 mm.
Gross weight approx. 15 grams.
It has apparent similarities to some of Raymond Templier designs. The pendant is not marked or signed. See for example page 194 in Art Deco Jewelry by Sylvie Raulet.
Art Deco (1915-1935) went in the opposite direction compared to Art Nouveau – abstract compositions, essential geometry, clean forms and straight lines. On the contrary to the complicated, floral and fairy-tale world of Art Nouveau, in strong reaction against the excesses of Edwardian and Belle Époque.
The beauty of Art Deco jewelry lies in the chromatic contrasts, in the union of East and West in purity of forms and colors, in architectural patterns.
Art Deco represents the physical embodiment of modern principles, generated as a result of the great social changes that happened during and after the First World War – with women replacing men in the emptied industrial plants and the wealth of the nobility being greatly dented.
Art Deco was the attempt to inject visual and psychological order into a world of rapid and somehow chaotic change.
From cast glass, enamels and gold threads there was a shift towards platinum, an abundance of diamonds, rock crystal, onyx, massive cabochon-cut gemstones, colour-blocked carved stones and the straight geometry was gradually softened to more rounded folds, scrolls and spirals to better follow the feminine curves.
From the world of nature, dreams and fairies to the world of modernism, machines, industrial progress.
