Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut and a reverence for form

and a reverence for form that borders on sculpture

but for promise

7 millimeters from front to back

and the bangle weighs 35

To the Edwardians

Antique Art Nouveau Drop Necklace Silver Enamel Mother-of-Pearl, Liberty & Co. c.1900 emerald cut and a reverence for formSome 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