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Gorgeous Aquamarine Ring with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, circa 1930

€ 8,490.00 ^*

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Gorgeous Aquamarine Ring with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, circa 1930

Description

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

A luminous, ice-blue aquamarine weighing 9.70 ct is at the center of this ring. The gemstone is scissor-cut so that its facets refract the light beautifully and produce the brilliance for which aquamarine is famous. Fine inclusions like snowflakes and delicate lines crisscross the stone: they testify to its creation by the forces of nature. In addition to its cool color, it was precisely this brilliance that made the aquamarine a favorite of jewelry fashion in the first decades of the 20th century - for now electricity had finally arrived, and night could be turned into day. "The aquamarine and other bright varieties of beryl are stones which lose none of their brilliance at night," wrote Arthur Herbert Church in 1891, and "All beryls are very brilliant in artificial light and therefore desirable stones for the evening," added Helen Bartlett Bridgman in 1915. This ring, too, in the cool formal language of Art Deco, will once have accompanied its first wearer to evening events - to an elegant dinner, perhaps, or to a gala. This is suggested by the festive white color and the rich diamond setting, both of which were considered appropriate for the evening. A total of 0.94 ct of fine white to white old cut diamonds shine brightly and brilliantly in their platinum settings. Typical of the time, the ring was forged from platinum on gold, with a rhodium plating now giving it a uniform color. We have had an independent gemological report done on the ring, which is included with the ring.

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Aquamarines rarely show inclusions. The fine lines in this stone are so-called hollow channels. They are caused by small disturbances in the crystal lattice during the growth of the stone and are a characteristic of natural aquamarines, as they are only found in this form in this gemstone. In this stone only a few of these fine lines are found in the stone, they are best seen in grazing light. If significantly more of the channels occur, one also speaks of "rain" in the stone. Cf. Eduard J. Gübelin: Bildatlas der Einschlüsse in Edelsteinen, Zurich 1986, p. 234f.

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€ 8,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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