Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut ” The two different dates

” The two different dates are a mystery

7 millimeters from front to back

and a reverence for form that borders on sculpture

it feels just as meaningful as it did more than a century ago

Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut ” The two different datesSome pieces from the Art Nouveau era feel as though they were borrowed from a dream, fluid, organic, shimmering with color that seems to move even when the jewel is perfectly still. This Liberty & Company necklace is one of them. Its pendant opens like a four petaled flower caught mid unfurling, each petal washed in luminous turquoise to green enamel, as if painted with light instead of pigment. Soft silver tendrils curl around a glowing mother of