Starry Night

Vintage Cluster Ring with Untreated Sapphire & Diamonds in White Gold, c. 1980

€ 3,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Vintage Cluster Ring with Untreated Sapphire & Diamonds in White Gold, c. 1980

Description

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

This ring presents a blue sapphire in a ring of sparkling diamonds. But how unusual is its color! The blue is deep and dark, almost like the sky just before nightfall. But if you turn the stone in the light, bright lines suddenly appear, fine lines that cut through the nocturnal blue like the stars of the Milky Way. Both the diamonds and the sapphire are of very good quality. The sapphire is untreated, i.e. it has not been heated or otherwise enhanced by humans. The diamonds shine in a fine white, i.e. without a warm hue. This also goes very well with the high-carat white gold from which the setting is made. The ring was created around 1980, when entourage rings like this one were once again very fashionable. Back then, they were often given as engagement rings. Princess Diana, for example, chose just such an entourage ring with sapphire as her engagement ring. Today, it adorns Princess Kate's hand as a family heirloom. Perhaps this ring will also establish a new family tradition? A detailed certificate from the German Gemstone Appraisal Society in Idar-Oberstein accompanies the ring and describes the quality of the materials used.

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If you ask ten people what their favorite color is, according to various surveys, eight of them will answer "blue". Why? Probably because blue is the color of the sky and the sea and because blue has a calming effect on many people. According to popular belief, sapphire is the stone of truth, loyalty, wisdom and reason. Accordingly, the Doge of Venice wore such a mild, blue stone set in gold as a sign of his loyalty and marriage to the sea. Queen Elizabeth I of England also believed that her sapphire could protect her against slander and cunning. It is possible that these associations in the 19th century gave rise to the meaning that sapphire had in gemlore, the language of precious stones. In this language, it was associated with truth and loving loyalty. For example, the painter Sir Edward Burne Jones, who also designed jewellery, wrote to his close friend Frances Graham: "Sapphire is truth, and I am never without it [...] Sapphires I make my totem of".

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Starry Night

€ 3,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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