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Cartier Jewelry and Design

September 1, 2009 Cartier

With Louis Cartier coming in to charge of the workshop, his innovative and masterful jewelry making techniques and designs changed the ideas of decorative arts and fashion forever. He drew his inspiration from the different trends in art and design and his jewelry work reflected adequately the moods of the epoch, but at the same time he successfully utilized the classical designs created by his prominent forefathers.

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Nineteenth Century Jewelry Part II

August 15, 2009 Antique Jewelry

Most of the early Empire jewellery is made on the flat. There is little relief or modelling. It has the appearance of having been cut with scissors out of the sheet and stuck together in the required form. There was a certain carefulness about the execution but no imagination about the designs, for the ornaments of this time usually consist of groups of certain stereotyped details …

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Gold

August 8, 2009 Glossary

Gold. This beautiful metal always has been the one most used for jewellery, partly because of its rich appearance, partly because it is very easily worked, and also because it does not tarnish.

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Austrian Art Nouveau Jewelry A Critical Examination Part I

August 7, 2009 Art Nouveau

We in Austria have greater leanings to France than to America, and precious stones, however great their intrinsic value, are looked upon as of quite secondary value in modern art-work to beauty of line and of colour. French influence on Austrian work cannot fail to be recognised.

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Austrian Art Nouveau Jewelry A Critical Examination Part II

August 7, 2009 Art Nouveau

… there is no doubt that there is far more activity in the production of jewellery for women in Vienna than in almost any other city. The culture of our town is, indeed, essentially feminine. The graceful and witty, yet dreamy and passionate, girls and women of Vienna give to it its distinctive character.

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Enamel

August 6, 2009 Glossary

… a vitreous glaze fused to its base by heat …

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Art Nouveau Silver Buckle by Theodore Lambert and Paul Templier

August 6, 2009 Buckles

… these are charming works of art, beautifully and harmoniously designed, and with lines balanced to perfection. They are, in fact, jewels meant to be worn …

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Nineteenth Century Jewelry Part I

August 4, 2009 Bracelet

Such things certainly form a very large part of the ornaments which appealed to Victorian taste, but also we find other classes of work which, while it never reaches a very high standard, yet has merits of its own.

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Niello

August 4, 2009 Glossary

A metallic composition of silver, lead, and sulphur. In appearance it is a black substance, somewhat resembling enamel, but it lacks the glassy surface and has a faintly metallic lustre.

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Amulets

August 4, 2009 Amulets

Small objects to which magical properties were attributed ; they were often Carried about the person in order to ward off evil spirits (or in some cases attract them).

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