Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mastery of Design: The Opal Mirror Ring, 1901

The Victoria and Albert Museum



This fanciful ring of golf is topped with a shaped bezel in the form of a mermaid clasping a mirror set with an opal. It was made in 1901 by A.C.C. Jahn (1865-1947).

The piece shows the visual transition from the designs of the Victorian era which were based mostly on naturalistic themes, flowers and foliage to the works of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau which relied on stylized depictions of the feminine form.

2 comments:

Dashwood said...

Thank you for posting mermaids. I think these are wonderful.

Joseph Crisalli said...

I especially like this ring.