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Antique Art Deco Ring With Colombian Emerald & Diamonds, Circa 1935

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Antique Art Deco Ring With Colombian Emerald & Diamonds, Circa 1935

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This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

In recent decades, luck and research have led to the discovery of numerous new gemstone deposits around the globe. In Africa in particular, many gemstones that were previously only found in other parts of the world, and usually only in small quantities, have since been mined. Rubies, for example, are no longer only found in Burma, but also in Madagascar and Mozambique, opals are no longer only found in Australia, but also in Ethiopia and emeralds are no longer only found in Colombia, but also in Zimbabwe and Zambia. These new deposits often produce very beautiful stones. And yet it is something else to own a gemstone from one of the classic sources. The color and beauty of emeralds from Colombia is usually unmatched. And last but not least, the long history and tradition of this special tropical treasure is only associated with such a stone. This ring demonstrates the special quality of such a stone. The emerald is shaped in the classic emerald cut and set in a yellow gold setting. A frame of sparkling diamonds surrounds it in a very graphic, almost architectural design: their white sparkle makes the tropical colour of the emerald shine all the more intensely: It immediately transports you to the rainforests where the gemstone was once discovered. The white gold setting speaks the design language of late Art Deco. The stones lie flat on the finger, making the ring comfortable to wear. The side view also reveals a witty idea by the goldsmith: the ring band here looks like a rope, a rope made of white gold, and holds the showpiece with the gemstones with a naturalistic loop. We discovered the ring in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, but its hallmark indicates that it was most likely made in Germany. We date it to the 1930s. The ring is accompanied by the independent expert's appraisal on the quality and origin of the gemstones.

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"We already enjoy looking at the green of the herbs and leaves. But we like the emeralds even better, for their green is the most beautiful of all. Moreover, they are the only precious stones that fill the eyes without saturating them; indeed, when the eyes are weakened by exertions of other kinds, they are strengthened again by looking at emeralds [...] for their soft green dispels their languor." (Nat. Hist. 37,16) The beauty and effect of gemstones already fascinated the ancients. The quote reproduced here comes from Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar from Como. In 77 AD, he compiled the knowledge of nature at the time in a work, Naturalis Historia or Natural History.

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