Art Nouveau diamond pendants are exquisite and are still wearable today. Diamonds are often used to accentuate the Art Nouveau designs.
Below are some examples and price guides of Art Nouveau diamond pendants including a jeweled Russian egg pendant and a locket set with diamonds and featuring the profile of a lady.
Necklace Marcus & Co. (American, 1892–1941) American about 1900
American art nouveau inspired necklace featuring a large pendant with seven peridots, scrolling wirework, filled in with green plique-a-jour enamel, and diamond surrounds in platinum, with pearl accents on a gold chain. Pendant can also be worn as a brooch.
Reference: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
A jewelled gold egg pendant, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 decorated with Art Noveau style lilies, reeds and leaves, the lilies in pink gold and set with two rubies, the leaves set with rose-cut diamonds, struck with unrecorded initials K.B in Cyrillic, 56 standard height without loop 2.5cm, 1in.
Sold for 3,000 GBP at Sotheby’s in 2019
Locket / pendant of gold set with diamonds. The front of the locket features the head and shoulders of a woman. the relief by Georges van der Straeten (1856-1928), Paris, 1901. Within is a mirror.
Reference: © Victoria and Albert Museum
AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900 The pendant of openwork floral and foliate design set throughout with old brilliant-cut diamonds, to a detachable cable-link chain with a collet-set old brilliant-cut diamond accent, mounted in platinum and gold, diamonds approx. 0.80ct total, Austro-Hungarian assay mark, maker’s mark A, lengths: pendant 5.3cm, chain 47.4cm
Sold for £ 956 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2019
ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL, RUBY AND DIAMOND PENDANT
Designed as a rectangular openwork gold plaque centering upon a green plique-à-jour enamel and yellow enamel leaf, accented by a bezel-set pear-shaped diamond, with gold and red enamel and rose-cut diamond trim
Sold for USD 3,000 at Christie’s in 2020
Art Nouveau Gold, Pearl, Plique-à-Jour Enamel and Diamond Pendant-Necklace The chain of fancy-shaped wire links of stylized tulip motif joined by bar links wrapped at each end by coiled wire, suspending a fancy-shaped pendant of of green guiolloché enamel, applied with scrolled wire ribbons, centering one button pearl ap. 11.2 x 11.0 mm., wrapped in crossed ribbons of old-mine cut diamonds, suspending flexibly collet-set links of 4 old-mine cut diamonds, joined by a swag of 4 pearls ap. 4.0 mm., suspending one old-mine cut diamond and one drop-shaped gray pearl ap. 17.0 x 11.1 x 8.1 mm., topped by a scalloped green plique-à-jour enamel cap tipped by small balls, , with diamond-set hook clasp, diamonds totaling ap. 2.05 cts., circa 1900, clasp added later, ap. 32 dwts. Length 24 1/2 inches.
Sold for $13,750 (includes buyer’s premium) at Doyle in 2020
