Elegant Art Deco Bracelet with Diamonds in Platinum, c. 1930

This bracelet from around 1930 is exceptionally elegant, wrapping around the wrist as a narrow band. One wonderful old European cut diamond of around one carat sparkles at its center. Sixteen smaller diamonds accompany the extraordinary central stone, meaning that the bracelet does not need any coloured elements at all. The handcrafted settings and fine milgrains alone, together with the play of light from the diamonds, give the bracelet life and expression. This makes it an ideal example of Art Déco jewellery, the modern style that shaped the aesthetics of the turbulent 1920s and 1930s. The design of the solid platinum bracelet is unusually luxurious. Solid platinum jewellery was already popular around 1910, but Russian platinum exports dried up after the revolution. As a result, the price of platinum rose to many times the price of gold. It was only after new platinum mines were opened in the South African Transvaal in 1924 that solid platinum jewellery slowly returned to the displays of jewellery stores, and the white metal once again became a staple of jewellery creation. The bracelet is in very good condition. It bears no hallmarks, but it was probably made in Germany during the Weimar Republic, then a center of modern European jewellery production. An independent expert opinion confirms the quality of the materials used.

Estimate:£6,778.45

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