Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Large Antique French love and luck gold ring with cute little Amor by Onbekende Kunstenaar

Grote antieke Franse liefde en geluk gouden ring met schattige kleine Amor 1840

Onbekende Kunstenaar

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€ 2.450

Adin Fine Antique Jewellery

  • Over kunstwerk

    This adorable French yellow gold ring from around 1840 is a true testimony of how jewellery and declarations of love go hand in hand.

    Cupido, the Roman god of love, is enshrined as a putti in an infinite halo of filigree lemniscates. On both sides of this marquise shaped top, four hearts build a universe where one plus one is one as they assemble into a four leaf clover.Between the shank's edges, filigree frills flutter as butterflies in a stomach. Clearly, this symbolic ring seales the marriage of love, luck and eternity.

    Another important detail is that this piece was made to shout out loud this message of affection as the large ringsize implies it was used to wear on gloves for everyone to see. Nowadays, love doesn't always seem to be this simple, so ouradvise is: if they don't make them like they used to, you just buy antiques.

    Antique jewelry object group: ring

    Condition: very good condition
      -  (more info on our condition scale)

    Country of origin:France

    Style: Victorian - Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. The Victorian era is known for its eclectic revival and interpretation of historic styles and the introduction of cross-cultural influences from themiddle east and Asia in furniture, fittings, and Interior decoration. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a regrettable excess of ornament. The Arts and Crafts movement, the aesthetic movement, Anglo-Japanese style, and Art Nouveaustyle have their beginnings in the late Victorian era.
      -  See also: Victorianor more info on styles

    Style specifics: The Romantic Victorian Period - Experts divide the reign of Queen Victoria, also called The Victorian era (1837 - 1901) in to three periods of about twenty years each; The Romantic Victorian Period (1837 - 1860), The Grand Victorian Period (1860 -1880), and the Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period (1880 - 1901).

    We consider this to be of the Romantic Victorian Period. This period covers the coronation of Victoria as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and her marriage to King Albert and their love, their devotion to their marriage and to their country are thesources of inspiration for this period. The jewels of this period are made of intricate carvings, special techniques where the enamel is subtly worked. These techniques allowed to give the jewel a certain opulence with less precious metal needed. Asprecious metals were really rare at that time. Highly favored (semi-) precious stones in this period are amethyst, coral, garnets, seed pearls and turquoises. The connotation is obviously sentimental, symbolic and romantic with reminiscent Gotic and/orRenaissance patterns and an abundant use of motifs like anchors, birds, branches, crosses, hearts and snakes.

    Period: ca. 1840
      -  (events & facts of this era, poetry of this era, fashion of this era)

    Source of inspiration: Luck, love and romance

    Theme: Amor - Or Eros or Cupido if you like, is the God of love who launches his love arrows to make people fall in love.

    Material: 18K yellow gold
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    Technique: Filigree (formerly written filigrann or filigrane) is a delicate kind of jewel work made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver or stitching of the same curving motifs. It often suggests lace and French from 1660 to the late 19th century. Itshould not be confused with ajoure jewellery work; while both have many open areas, filigree involves threads being soldered together to form an object and ajoure involves holes being punched, drilled, or cut through an existing piece of metal. (from: Wikipedia)

    Hallmarks: The French control mark for 18K gold representing an eagle's head that was in use in France from about 1838.
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    Dimensions: top of ring 2,56 cm (1,01 inch) x 1,67 cm (0,66 inch)

    Weight: 3,00 gram (1,93 dwt)

    Ring size Continental: 75 & 23¾ , Size US 15¾ , Size UK: above Z

    Resizing: Resizing is possible but because of the age of the ring we prefer to leave it untouched. We could make an additional inner ring so the ring itself is not harmed, for this work we have to charge. We cannot guarantee to make it on every size; so pleaseask in advance. Return policy on this ring is not valid anymore once this work has been done.
      -  (more info on ring sizes)

    Reference Nº: 18082-0223

    Copyright photography: Adin, fine antique jewelry

  • Over kunstenaar

    Het kan voorkomen dat een kunstenaar of maker onbekend is.

    Voor sommige werken is het niet te bepalen door wie het gemaakt is of dat het is gemaakt door (een groep) ambachtslieden. Voorbeelden zijn beelden uit de Oudheid, meubels, spiegels of handtekeningen die vaak niet duidelijk of leesbaar zijn. Maar ook sommige werken zijn helemaal niet gesigneerd.

    Ook kunt u de volgende beschrijving vinden:

    •"Toegeschreven aan …." waarschijnlijk een werk van de kunstenaar maar niet zeker of gedeeltelijk

    •“Atelier van ….” of werkplaats van” een werk uitgevoerd in het atelier of atelier van de kunstenaar, eventueel onder zijn toezicht

    •“Cirkel van ….” een werk uit de periode van de kunstenaar die zijn invloed laat zien, nauw verbonden met de kunstenaar maar niet noodzakelijkerwijs zijn leerling

    •“Stijl van ….” of  “Volger van ….” een werk uitgevoerd in de stijl van de kunstenaar, maar niet noodzakelijk door een leerling; kan eigentijds of bijna eigentijds zijn

    •“Wijze van ….” een werk in de stijl van de kunstenaar maar van latere datum

    •"Na …." een kopie (van welke datum dan ook) van een werk van de kunstenaar

    •“Getekend…”,  “Gedateerd….”  of  “Ingeschreven” dan is het werk gesigneerd/ gedateerd/ ingeschreven door de kunstenaar. De toevoeging van een vraagteken duidt op een element van twijfel

    •"Met handtekening ...", "Met datum ...", "Met opschrift..." of “Draagt signatuur/datum/opschrift” dan is de handtekening/datum/opschrift toegevoegd door iemand anders dan de kunstenaar

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