Victorian Aquamarine Gold Brooch
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
A diamond set cocktail wristwatch, circa 1930's, 18ct yellow and white gold, marked to dial Ancora, the case presented as the original large curved panel of white gold pierced and engraved throughout with bold geometric work, detailed by sixteen tiny diamo
An Edwardian diamond cluster ring, the central old cushion cut diamond of estimated weight 1.50 carats, surrounded by eight old brilliant cut diamonds. 18ct yellow gold and platinum. Weight 3.8 grams. Size N ½
Diamond ring, of flower-head design centring an old European-cut diamond weighing approximately 0.40 carats within a similarly-cut diamond set surround accented by circular-cut diamonds above similarly set shoulders, mounted in platinum, size K1/2.
A diamond and sapphire set target ring, 18ct white gold, Art Deco style, designed as a round cluster target ring, set with central brilliant cut diamond of approximately 0.30ct, bead claw set in a single bezel, framed by a carre channel set star shape fram