AN IMPORTANT BELLE EPOQUE DIAMOND CHOKER NECKLACE of foliate and scroll design, comprising five graduated diamond foliate and scroll garlands with diamond laurel crown spacers suspending diamond four-stone droplets, circa 1910 32.5cm. long The necklace now being offered for sale is the embodiment of the garland style which was popular from the mid 1890s until the outbreak of the First World War. The inspiration for this style came from the reign of Louis XVI and his court at Versailles. Many of those industrialists and entrepreneurs who had acquired great wealth during the late nineteenth century liked to recreate the atmosphere of the late eighteenth century and required jewellery that evoked the splendour of the period. Louis Cartier constantly encouraged his draughtsmen to walk about Paris noting details of architecture of the eighteenth century. In Cartier's sketch books there appeared the pediments above the doors at Fontainebleau and the garlands of fruit on the Petit Trianon.
AN IMPORTANT BELLE EPOQUE DIAMOND CHOKER NECKLACE of foliate and scroll design, comprising five graduated diamond foliate and scroll garlands with diamond laurel crown spacers suspending diamond four-stone droplets, circa 1910 32.5cm. long The necklace now being offered for sale is the embodiment of the garland style which was popular from the mid 1890s until the outbreak of the First World War. The inspiration for this style came from the reign of Louis XVI and his court at Versailles. Many of those industrialists and entrepreneurs who had acquired great wealth during the late nineteenth century liked to recreate the atmosphere of the late eighteenth century and required jewellery that evoked the splendour of the period. Louis Cartier constantly encouraged his draughtsmen to walk about Paris noting details of architecture of the eighteenth century. In Cartier's sketch books there appeared the pediments above the doors at Fontainebleau and the garlands of fruit on the Petit Trianon.
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