Eras
Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco: a short guide
Three eras, three very different ideas of what jewelry should say about you.
By Our curation team — Curation, Amsterdam · April 3, 2026
Victorian jewelry, roughly 1837 to 1901, is warm and sentimental: yellow gold, seed pearls, garnets, hair lockets and mourning brooches. It was made to be worn every day and it usually shows.
Edwardian work turned white. Platinum let jewelers pierce and mill metal into lace, so diamonds seem to float. Look for millegrain edges and garland motifs.
Art Deco broke with all of it. Hard geometry, contrasting stones, onyx against diamond, calibre-cut sapphires. If a piece looks architectural, you are usually somewhere between 1920 and 1935.
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