ArtistDanishb.1948
Natascha Trolle
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Natascha Trolle was born in Denmark in 1948 and built a working life around the precise knowledge of what lies inside a stone. She holds both the FGA (Fellow of the Gemmological Association) and DGA qualifications from Gem-A, the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, the leading international body for gemstone education. These credentials place her in a professional category that spans both scientific appraisal and artistic application.
Her company, TrolleGems ApS, has operated for over twenty-five years as a gemstone supplier to Scandinavian jewelers, sourcing rough stones and cut gems from producing regions including Burma and Brazil. The business sits at the intersection of trade and craft: supplying the raw material to other makers while Trolle herself works the stones into finished jewelry sold under her own name. That dual role, supplier and maker, is uncommon and gives her work a transparency about material origin that purely commercial jewelry rarely carries.
The jewelry she makes follows the logic of the stone rather than the metal. Tourmaline appears repeatedly in her output: the mineral's natural color range, from pale pink through deep green, allows her to build chromatic relationships across a single piece without mixing gem types. The signature series includes works set with marquise- and oval-cut tourmalines, rose-cut diamonds, and polished emeralds mounted in 18-karat gold. A named line, the Pink Nordic Scarabae earrings, incorporates both cut and carved stones, suggesting a sculptural sensibility beyond standard setting work.
Her material palette extends to aquamarine, opal, serpentine, labradorite, Tahiti pearls, keshi freshwater pearls, and Colombian emeralds, often combined within single pieces rather than isolated. The metalwork spans 9-karat, 14-karat, and 18-karat gold as well as sterling silver, with construction details such as hand-cut rose-cut stones indicating workshop production rather than mass manufacture.
The Nordic connection in her work is legible at the naming level: the scarab motif recontextualized as Nordic, tourmalines described by their origin region, aquamarines paired with serpentine from Greenland. Whether this reflects a deliberate positioning or an accumulated sensibility from decades of Scandinavian supply work is unclear from the available record.
On Auctionist, all 29 items attributed to Natascha Trolle have passed through a single house: Bruun Rasmussen in Lyngby, the dominant venue for fine jewelry in the Danish market. Eight pieces are currently active. The top recorded sale reached 9,500 DKK for the Pink Nordic Scarabae tourmaline ear studs. Other strong results include a tourmaline necklace at 9,000 DKK and an emerald-and-diamond ring at 3,600 DKK. The concentration within a single auction house, and the consistent pricing across lots, suggests a collector market that knows the name and returns to it.