Red like blood, white like snow

Fabulously Beautiful Ring with Ruby & Diamond, c. 1905 & Later

€ 1,980.00 ^*

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Fabulously Beautiful Ring with Ruby & Diamond, c. 1905 & Later

Description

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

We encounter the combination of ruby and diamond again and again in antique jewelry and it has even found its way into literature! In Adalbert Stifter's moving story Der Nachsommer from 1857, we read the following description: "The jewellery was a composition of diamonds and rubies and looked as delicate, pure and luxurious as a medieval work of art set in colors. A true magic lay around this intimacy of water luster and rose blush distributed in the sensual figures, which can only be taken from the thoughts of our ancestors." The beautiful ring presented here also juxtaposes a red ruby with a diamond. Ten small diamonds in old cuts set the elegantly curved ring shoulders in platinum settings, while the ring itself is forged from high-carat yellow gold. Designs with two different but roughly equally sized gemstones were very popular in the period around 1900: people loved to play with symbols and in the imagination of the time, two lovers stood opposite each other here, recognizable as independent elements, yet firmly connected by their feelings. The colors of the gemstones also add another symbolic layer to the piece of jewelry: The radiant red of the ruby represents the fire of love and the white of the diamonds stands for the immortality of the relationship. The ring came to us from Paris. It was created shortly after the turn of the century around 1900. Later, the settings of the two large gemstones were renewed and the ruby was re-set in the ring. It can now be worn with confidence.

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Red like blood, white like snow

€ 1,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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