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Today is World Art Nouveau Day and I thought I would celebrate my favourite artistic movement with a piece of beautiful jewellery.

This beautiful, stylised Art Nouveau brooch is English and was made in 1904. It forms a lovely freeform Art Nouveau design. Made of 15 carat yellow gold, the brooch features eight small seed pearls in clawfoot settings and two droplets featuring brilliant cut mine emeralds and baroque pearls.

Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum. Insects were a common theme for jewellery in the Art Nouveau period, as was the female form both of which are thought to represent the freedom of design of the movement.

(Private collection).

World Art Nouveau Day is an event dedicated to art nouveau that is celebrated annually on the 10th June. The first World Art Nouveau Day in 2013 was organized by The Museum of Applied Arts in cooperation with Szecessziós Magazin. The selected date, the10th of June is the anniversary of the death of two famous architects of the movement, Antoni Gaudí and Ödön Lechner. Activities like those organised on World Art Nouveau Day aim to create more awareness of Art Nouveau heritage among the public.

This beautiful, stylised Art Nouveau brooch is French and was made in Paris in 1906. It features a lovely profile of a woman with a loose chignon with her left hand placed upon her bare right shoulder. Artisan made, she has been fashioned by hand and she is remarkably detailed. Made of 15 carat yellow gold, the profile is framed by a stylised red enamel border which has three brilliant cut old mine diamonds set in enamel. A small baroque pearl hangs at the bottom of the brooch.

Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum. Insects were a common theme for jewellery in the Art Nouveau period, as was the female form both of which are thought to represent the freedom of design of the movement.

(Private collection).

World Art Nouveau Day is an event dedicated to art nouveau that is celebrated annually on 10 June. The first World Art Nouveau Day in 2013 was organized by The Museum of Applied Arts in cooperation with Szecessziós Magazin. The selected date, the10th of June is the anniversary of the death of two famous architects of the movement, Antoni Gaudí and Ödön Lechner. Activities like those organised on World Art Nouveau Day aim to create more awareness of Art Nouveau heritage among the public.

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “gemstones”.

And what better gemstones to pick than the ruby and large faceted emerald in this piece of turn-of-the-century jewellery?

This fanciful Edwardian Art Nouveau insect brooch is French and was made in Paris in 1903. It is made of 15 carat rose gold and set with a brilliant cut old mine ruby for the head and large emerald for the body, with cultured pearls embedded in the wings. When the light catches the emerald in particular, it sparkles and winks brilliantly.

Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum. Insects were a very common theme for jewellery in the Art Nouveau period, and are thought to represent the freedom of design of the movement.

(Private collection).

This powder box featuring an Edwardian beauty comes from around 1910 to 1912. She is French and is made of gold with a lip of dark green enamel. The image of the unknown beauty was done by taking a lithograph of a photograph of the lady, painting it my hand, and cutting it to allow the colours of slivers of mother of pearl and iridescent butterfly wings to blend into the photograph. The image was then placed beneath a convex piece of glass to protect it. The protected image was then inserted into a 15 carat gold frame and backed by a bevelled mirror on the inside. She came with her original powder puff which features a little pink and white candy stripe ribbon. She is only one and a half inches in diameter.

(Private collection.)

This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called “Freestyle On The Fifth”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.

This month the theme, “beauty” was chosen by Andrew (ajhaysom).

I wanted to choose this powder box because she represents beauty in several ways: the powder box itself is an item of beauty, the woman on the top is the epitome of an Edwardian Beauty from before the Great War, and the box’s purpose was to hold powder for an Edwardian lady to dust her face with, to aide her beauty.

This Victorian double bow brooch is French and was made in the last two decades of the Nineteenth Century. It is made of 15 carat gold, and features 32 seed pearls and five turquoises. Beautifully crafted, it is very feminine in style.

Private collection.

The theme for "Look Closely... on Friday" on Friday 24th of April 2020 is "bow". I did have a photo of a bow on a box and then I remembered that a friend had this beautiful bow brooch that I had admired over the years. The owner has been kind enough to lend it to me to photograph.

This beautiful brooch was made in Britain in 1910. Created in the prevailing Art Nouveau style so fashionable in the early years of the Twentieth Century, the brooch features a stylised bough or branch bearing fruit and is made of 15 carat yellow gold, and features twenty-six small and seven large brilliant cut garnets. It measures four centimetres in width and one and half centimetres in height. With its curling foliage, it represents the delicate and elegant style of the Belle Époque.

Private collection.