Antique Emerald Engagement Ring Styles

The emerald engagement ring is found in more retro reproduction styles than other rings possibly because it has gone through several periods of being in fashion in the last century. There are three major historical periods of style that the design of emerald wedding jewelry still mimics today.

The first retro emerald engagement ring style is called Art Nouveau and was in fashion between 1890 and 1918. These feminine flowing ring designs featured butterflies, flowers, twining vines, snakes and dragonflies as motifs. Emerald wedding jewelry was often fashioned in the shape of flowers with pearls, garnets and diamonds defining gem stone petals surrounded by jeweled leafs made of marquise cut emeralds.

The second retro emerald engagement ring style is from the Edwardian period of history from 1901 to 1915. These delicate engagement ring designs featured intricate, lacy pyramids of stacked precious gems such as emeralds, corals, carnelians and rubies. Tiny emeralds were often entwined with diamonds and pearls in wedding bands that looked like a circlet of delicate brambles.

The third style is from what is called the Retro period which historians say runs from 1935 to 1950. In terms of emerald wedding jewelry the style made bolder, squarer and oblong gems framed by thicker gold or silver rims into focus. Everything was oversized and emerald engagement rings were worn interchangeably as cocktail rings.

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