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AN ANTIQUE GOLD BANGLE
With central pierced panel decorated all round with an openwork interlace design incorporating Viking ornaments of the 9th-10th century with granulation and wirework decoration, circa 1870
Maker's mark VB, stamped 14
A similar bangle from a different retailer but probably the same maker can be found in the collection of the British Museum. According to the museum, Danish revival jewels were first shown in Britain at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, but the marriage of the Danish Princess Alexandra to the Prince of Wales in 1863 provided a political occasion to tell Denmarks history through its jewellery. The Princess was given no fewer than five different sets of revivalist or Old Norse jewellery representing the great ages in Denmarks past: Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking period. In each case, an original ornament, which might be a diadem, bracelet or necklace, was adapted to create a whole set in the Victorian taste. The Princess gifts, displayed to huge crowds at the South Kensington Museum and widely illustrated in the press, gave them popular appeal in Britain as well as Denmark. These Danish revival jewels were popular in Britain thanks to the patronage of Princess Alexandra who ensured that Danish art objects were available in London. The Princess' own popularity added to the interest in Denmark, and to the enormous sympathy with Denmark when Schleswig-Holstein was finally lost to Germany in 1864.
With central pierced panel decorated all round with an openwork interlace design incorporating Viking ornaments of the 9th-10th century with granulation and wirework decoration, circa 1870
Maker's mark VB, stamped 14
A similar bangle from a different retailer but probably the same maker can be found in the collection of the British Museum. According to the museum, Danish revival jewels were first shown in Britain at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, but the marriage of the Danish Princess Alexandra to the Prince of Wales in 1863 provided a political occasion to tell Denmarks history through its jewellery. The Princess was given no fewer than five different sets of revivalist or Old Norse jewellery representing the great ages in Denmarks past: Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking period. In each case, an original ornament, which might be a diadem, bracelet or necklace, was adapted to create a whole set in the Victorian taste. The Princess gifts, displayed to huge crowds at the South Kensington Museum and widely illustrated in the press, gave them popular appeal in Britain as well as Denmark. These Danish revival jewels were popular in Britain thanks to the patronage of Princess Alexandra who ensured that Danish art objects were available in London. The Princess' own popularity added to the interest in Denmark, and to the enormous sympathy with Denmark when Schleswig-Holstein was finally lost to Germany in 1864.
榮譽呈獻
Cecile Bruggen