Victorian Pique Bangle c1890

This Victorian Pique tapered expansion bangle has beautiful floral detail , c1890 .It is a such a unique piece that you’ll want in your collection today!

Named after the reign of Queen Victoria, this style of jewellery was highly personal to the beloved queen, who was a style-setting icon of her time.

With a reign that spanned over 60 years, Queen Victoria was hugely influential in the history of jewellery design. The rise of Britain’s Middle Class after the Industrial Revolution meant that, for the first time, common people could afford to purchase jewellery.

Piqué work was a type of decorative work made by inlaying tiny points or pins of gold or other precious metals (Sometimes mother-of-pearl) in patterns or pictures on tortoiseshell. Sometimes Ivory was used.

  Small metal pieces fill in an engraved design such as floral or scenic. The technique originated in the mid 1600s in Italy and France as decorative objects like boxes it spread to jewellery in the 19th century and reaching its peak in popularity during the Victorian period.

This form of jewellery making is now a lost art and cannot be reproduced today and is so unique and spectacular