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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1076233, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous, obb. I&#039;m late to the party, a lot going on here.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I agree with the others, ca 1910, German Jugendstil.</p><p>The stones could be genuine chrysoprase, a German favourite in the Jugendstil and Art Deco eras. Some chrysoprase was/is mined in Germany, but they got most of it from neighbouring Poland.</p><p>German and Polish chrysoprase was also used quite a lot in Dutch jewellery of the same periods.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same age as late Austro-Hungarian, but not the desired Austro-Hungarian Renaissance/Baroque Revival style.</p><p>A stunning set though, and think I detect a bit of British Arts &amp; Crafts influence. British designers went to the Darmstadt artist&#039;s colony before they went to Vienna. Pforzheim manufacturers made Darmstadt designs more accessible to a larger public.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think they are a marriage, but a very happy one.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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