Geiss Berlin iron bracelet

A Berlin iron bracelet, circa 1830, from the foundry of Johann Conrad Geiss. Recognised as the master designer of Berlin iron jewels, Geiss was the first to incorporate high quality jewellery elements in gold frames and the first to incorporate Neoclassical and Neo-gothic elements in his designs. This bracelet is typical of Geiss’s work, with its Neo-gothic style links and a cameo clasp of a  maenad on a steel back plate in a gold wirework frame. It is 7 inches long and 2 inches wide and immaculate. For a pair of bracelets of identical form stamped Geiss in the Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, see page 100 in Cast Iron from Central Europe 1800 – 1850. 

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Bracelets of identical form by Geiss in the Nordiska Museum