An 18k gold wire watermelon tourmaline and pearl fringe necklace.
An 18k gold wire watermelon tourmaline and pearl fringe necklace.
Hand forged necklace of ornamentally entwined gold threads suspending a graduated fringe of 15 polygonally faceted discs of red and green watermelon tourmaline (ca. 10.05 x 9.4 mm - ca. 18.1 x 17.9 mm) with gold backings alternating with 14 pinned pearls (diameter 3.8 - 4.0 mm, not tested, described as Oriental pearls in the Treskow catalogue). Hallmarks: Fineness 750, maker's mark "ET". L 37 cm. Weight 87.14 g.
Elisabeth Treskow, Cologne, 1968 - 70.
Provenance
From the estate of the ballerina Inca Bauer from Cologne.
Literature
Illustrated in Joppien, Elisabeth Treskow - Goldschmiedekunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1990, p. 157, no. 239, where the pearls are described as Oriental pearls. Elisabeth Treskow created a total of three of these necklaces with tourmaline discs.
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An 18k gold wire watermelon tourmaline and pearl fringe necklace.
Hand forged necklace of ornamentally entwined gold threads suspending a graduated fringe of 15 polygonally faceted discs of red and green watermelon tourmaline (ca. 10.05 x 9.4 mm - ca. 18.1 x 17.9 mm) with gold backings alternating with 14 pinned pearls (diameter 3.8 - 4.0 mm, not tested, described as Oriental pearls in the Treskow catalogue). Hallmarks: Fineness 750, maker's mark "ET". L 37 cm. Weight 87.14 g.
Elisabeth Treskow, Cologne, 1968 - 70.
Provenance
From the estate of the ballerina Inca Bauer from Cologne.
Literature
Illustrated in Joppien, Elisabeth Treskow - Goldschmiedekunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1990, p. 157, no. 239, where the pearls are described as Oriental pearls. Elisabeth Treskow created a total of three of these necklaces with tourmaline discs.
