Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut it feels just as meaningful

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

but for promise

Opal jewelry of this period was prized for its dreamlike color and quiet symbolism

To the Edwardians

and the bangle weighs 35

Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut it feels just as meaningfulSome 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