A German hand-forged 18k gold wire necklace with a large granulation and black opal pendant brooch.
A German hand-forged 18k gold wire necklace with a large granulation and black opal pendant brooch.
Necklace designed as a strand of twisted gold wire links with a bombé-form repoussé clasp (20.0 x c. 32.0 mm), decorated with fine surface granulation and symmetrically set with 14 small drilled pearls. Suspending a large bombé-form quatrefoil pendant bezel-set with a large opal with rainbow opalescence, framed by a ring of small cultured pearls strung on wire. With brooch mount on the reverse. Hallmarks: Fineness 750, maker's mark. Necklace L 35 cm. Brooch 3.8 x 4.9 cm. Total weight 77.40 g. Original case with black leather cover.
Wilhelm Nagel, Wesseling.
Wilhelm Nagel created this necklace for his wife Martha to wear on their wedding.
Provenance
Private ownership, Rhineland.
Literature
Illus. in cat. Wilhelm Nagel Goldschmied - Freie Arbeiten + Aufgaben 1948 - 1998, 1998, p. 43.
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A German hand-forged 18k gold wire necklace with a large granulation and black opal pendant brooch.
Necklace designed as a strand of twisted gold wire links with a bombé-form repoussé clasp (20.0 x c. 32.0 mm), decorated with fine surface granulation and symmetrically set with 14 small drilled pearls. Suspending a large bombé-form quatrefoil pendant bezel-set with a large opal with rainbow opalescence, framed by a ring of small cultured pearls strung on wire. With brooch mount on the reverse. Hallmarks: Fineness 750, maker's mark. Necklace L 35 cm. Brooch 3.8 x 4.9 cm. Total weight 77.40 g. Original case with black leather cover.
Wilhelm Nagel, Wesseling.
Wilhelm Nagel created this necklace for his wife Martha to wear on their wedding.
Provenance
Private ownership, Rhineland.
Literature
Illus. in cat. Wilhelm Nagel Goldschmied - Freie Arbeiten + Aufgaben 1948 - 1998, 1998, p. 43.
