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Art Daily has announced a collection of gems jewellery from the Art Nouveau movement is to be exhibited by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The collection will include a selection of privately-owned pieces, some of which have never been on display before.

Included are a circular gold box made by Lalique and a gold necklace the designer created for the mistress of French writer Emile Zola.

During the period, yellow gold was used to create dramatic necklaces, brooches and hair gems ornaments.

Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund, directors of the museum, said: "The works created during this period by Lalique and his contemporaries achieved a level of innovation in both design and technique that has rarely been seen in jewellery.

"They are also exquisitely beautiful."

The movement occurred at the turn of the 20th century as a backlash against the mass production of the Industrial Revolution and the more formal traditionalism of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, the newspaper said.

Art Nouveau also extended into architecture, art and furniture.

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