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Glamorous Earrings With Natural Zircons In White Gold & Red Gold, Circa 1935 & Later

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Glamorous Earrings With Natural Zircons In White Gold & Red Gold, Circa 1935 & 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!

Zircon is a natural gemstone that is unjustly little known in Germany. It has nothing in common with the inexpensive "zirconia", which is produced in a laboratory and is a cheap substitute for diamonds. Genuine zircons are precious gemstones that can come in many beautiful colors, whereby the blue specimens were particularly prized in the Art Deco era and are still rarities on the jewellery market today. These blue precious zircons bear the trade name "Starlit" and are created by carefully firing the stones, which are always found in dark brown, at temperatures of around 800 degrees Celsius for several hours. With a bit of luck, this produces the unmistakable blue that is one of the most sought-after colours in the spectrum of precious zircons. This is how an initially unremarkable material is transformed into a precious gemstone. The electrifying blue of two large precious zircons can be admired in this pair of earrings. The stones, which are around eight millimetres in diameter, are accompanied by an entourage of white zirconia that sparkle almost like diamonds. The stones are set in white gold, while the openwork galleries are made of reddish gold. Agraffe-like elements complete the composition at the top. The elements were once part of a bracelet from the 1930s, which came to us in fragments. In our workshop, we have fitted them with practical and well-tolerated bows made of high-carat gold so that they can now be worn as elegant ear pendants.

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A new gemstone from the mines of Thailand, then still called "Siam", caused a sensation in the 1920s: the so-called "starlite" zircon. It got its name from the famous American gemologist George Frederick Kunz, who was reminded of sparkling starlight by the brilliance of the stone. The special thing about the stone was that it only acquired this unusual color and brilliance through heating, as it has a brown-red color in its raw state. In the 1920s, when people were enthusiastic about technology and progress, they pounced on this new, electric blue jewel.

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€ 2,390.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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