Heritage Refined: Crowned Heart Brooch with Large Antique Rose-Cut Diamond

This exceptional bar brooch, crafted in 14K yellow gold with silver details, blends Victorian elegance with mid-20th-century craftsmanship. Its centrepiece is a remarkably large pear-shaped rose-cut diamond, surrounded by thirteen smaller rose-cut diamonds and senailles, all set on foil to enhance their lustre. The crowned heart motif, a timeless emblem of love and romance, adds symbolic depth to its intricate design. The setting for the central diamond appears to date from the early 19th century, while the brooch as a whole was created post-1952, likely incorporating antique elements. A true testament to enduring beauty and sentimentality.

Antique jewelry object group
bar brooch

Condition
very good condition
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Country of origin
Netherlands

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 the middle 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 Nouveau style have their beginnings in the late Victorian era.
See also: Victorian
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Period
ca. 1960
Events & facts of this era, poetry of this era, fashion of this era.

Source of inspiration
Love and romance

Theme
A stylized crowned heart. The heart has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past also intellectual core of a human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human mind, the word heart continues to be used poetically to refer to the soul, and stylized depictions of hearts are extremely prevalent symbols representing love. (from: Wikipedia)

Material 14K
yellow gold and details in silver (touchstone tested)
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Technique
The rose cuts are set on foil. This is a special technique that was used to bring the lustre of the diamonds to its best quality.

Extra information
The setting holding the large pear-shaped stone, as well as the stone itself, seem to date from the early 19th century or possibly even earlier. The brooch as a whole, however, was made after 1952, possibly using older components.

Diamonds
One large pear shaped rose cut diamond and thirteen smaller rose cut diamonds and senailles . A senaille is a simplified rose cut diamond, a small diamond chip with perhaps a few polished facets. We do not have the weight of the rose cuts diamonds nor the senailles which is normal in our trade when it comes to rose cut diamonds and senailles.

- All diamonds, regardless of their size or shape, in our vintage and antique jewellery are verified as 100% natural by the IJGC laboratory.

- We do not sell lab-grown (synthetic) diamonds.

Birthstones
Diamond is the birthstone (or month stone) for April.
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Hallmarks
Two Dutch control marks representing an oak leaf with the number 585, for 14K gold and a control mark representing a sword with the number 835 for silver 835/1000. Both in use since 1955.
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Dimensions
7,08 cm (2,79 inch) x 2,03 cm (0,80 inch)
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Weight
8,90 gram (5,72 dwt)

Adin Reference Nº
24309-0272

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