This Austro Hungarian hanger is decorated with diamonds, rubies emeralds en tiny pearls. Like most Austro-Hungarian jewellery, it is made out of silver. Often, it was dipped into a gold bath to leave it a thin layer of gold. Here that has since disappeared. The Austro-Hungarian period in jewellery dates from the 1870's to around 1910. It was highly influenced by the Renaissance. You could call it a neo-style. Although most jewellery is much more crude than the extremely refined Renaissance work, the better Austro-Hungarian pieces are hard to distinguish from the Renaissance ones. Enamel plays a crucial part in these works, as well as a variety of different gemstones. Many of the pendants portray saints and the ones including fabled animals like St. George slaying the dragon, are a favored subject.
Austro Hungarian pendant with ruby, emeralds and diamonds.
This pendant measures approx. 9cm from the top of the bale to the end of the emerald. On the widest part, it is roughly 3.5 cm wide. The pendant weighs 15.8 gram. and is made out of silver. There are nine slivers of diamond set on the pendant and two emeralds, a tourmaline, two pink stones probably rubies and two blue pastes. And there are 24 seed pearls mounted on the pendant, most likely natural. The bale is gold.
