I've been playing around with some small (18x13mm) cabachons today to make some smaller pendants.
This one is 35mm in total length and made with an amazonite cab wrapped in copper. This will be oxidised soon.
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Gold swivel ring with amethyst frog, Egypt, New Kingdom, 1550-1229 BC
from Christies
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"Chomp" jewellery by Lauren O'Connor Korb
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The sunset | Jewelry by Anli Hou, China
The sunset glow is more poetic, giving people a romantic atmosphere. The tranquility at the moment is like that I integrate with the sunset glow. When a night falls, I will blend in with the darkness. The light wind quietly makes my heart go with the wind. I like the sunset glow, and I also like the ending of every day in this way. It gorgeous and vivid colors send away the busy and troubles of the day and tell people that the day has passed and a new day will begin.
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Magnificent gold and enamel plique-à-jour pendant/brooch designed as a “Morning Glory”. It was once part of the collection of Ada Rehan, a popular actress of the late 19th century who starred in several Shakespearean plays.
Work signed Marcus & Co around 1900. Via The Newark Museum of Art collection
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Faruk Özcan. ArtJewelryByMoko
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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …
I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.
Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):
Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):
Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):
And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.
And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.
I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:
(Rene Lalique)
(Eugene Feuillatre)
Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?
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I've got round to electroforming my rhodonite coffins (added a copper frame around the edges with bail). I've also now oxidised and polished.
I'll be listing these very soon.
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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gold pendant with pearls in the shape of a caravel, Patmos, Greece, 17th century
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Dance of pearls | Jewelry by Anli Hou, China
Once I said to my friends, ‘ please write and tell me what color the sea is today ’. The purity and tranquility of the sea give people a quiet mind. I ran barefoot on the clean and soft beach, let the fine sand flow through my feet like water and left clear foot marks on the beach. I pick up shells, starfish, small fish and shrimp, enjoy the gift of the sea and collect them carefully. I watching the rise and fall off the tide and never stop. All thoughts on the beach are always gentle.
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