Wednesday 6 January 2021

Antique floral jewellery


Antique floral jewellery became famous during the Victorian era in 1837 to 1901. It is a fine jewellery - has lots of precious stones like diamonds and emeralds (shown in figure 1) and made of precious metal like gold, platinum and silver. In the antique jewellery, flowers are imitated to make jewellery. The jewellery that I manufacture is also based on this idea of imitating flowers, but I specifically imitate the rose flower. When imitating the rose I focus on getting the shape and texture right by forging, doming and etching. The pictures below in figure 1 and 2 shows the imitated flowers that are domed, which is also the technique that I use in my imitating process. 


Figure 1- dits Meller, M., (c.1850), Mellerio floral tiara, platinum, gold, diamonds and emeralds.

This is a floral tiara  made by Mellerio dits Meller which belonged to Eugene Beauharnais in circa 1850's. 

Figure 2- Phillips, S.J., (unkown). En tremblant antique floral spray and diamond brooch, silver ontop of gold and diamonds.

 


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