Collar necklace with tourmalines
18 ct yellow gold. Hand-forged necklace of ornamentally intertwined gold wires with pin buckle. Radially suspended 15 polygonal slices of red-green watermelon tourmalines (ca. 10.05 x 9.4 mm - ca. 18.1 x 17.9 mm) in gold-fused settings alternating with 14 studded pearls (diameter 3.8 - 4.0 mm, not tested, described in the Treskow catalog as oriental pearls). Stamped: fineness 750, MZ "ET". L 37 cm. Weight 87.14 g.
Elisabeth Treskow, Cologne, 1968 - 70.
Provenance
Estate of the Cologne ballerina Inca Bauer.
Literature
Illustrated in Joppien, Elisabeth Treskow - Goldschmiedekunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1990, p. 157, no. 239, where the pearls are described as oriental pearls. Elisabeth Treskow created a total of three of these necklaces with tourmaline discs.
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