Elegant Pendant with Antique Amethyst & Diamonds From Our Workshop

Intoxicating Colour

Elegant Pendant with Antique Amethyst & Diamonds From Our Workshop

€ 1,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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Its deep, purple color has associated amethyst with wine since ancient times. The name is derived from the Greek "amethystos", which means "counteracting intoxication". This is based on the ancient belief that its wearer was immune to the intoxicating effects of wine. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, vessels and drinking cups were therefore cut from amethyst, and until the early modern period it was considered a talisman against drunkenness when set in rings. The French poet Rémy Belleau wrote in one of his poems that the color of the stone was created when the god of wine, Bacchus, moistened clear crystal with wine. There is therefore a certain poetic logic in cutting amethysts in the shape of drops. If such a drop is faceted, it is called a briolette. This pendant, a piece from our workshop for which we used an antique amethyst from the 1920s, focuses on such a gemstone. The setting for this antique stone was newly created in our workshop. It is set with rose cut diamonds and single cut diamonds and leads elegantly to a simple pendant loop. It replaces a lost old setting and was made from platinum by our goldsmiths. A fine platinum chain, specially commissioned, completes the piece of jewellery. Designs of this kind were often made with amethysts and aquamarines around 1930. A very similar model can be found in the catalog of the jeweler F. Todt from the 1931/32 season, the corresponding page of which we have reproduced last.

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Intoxicating Colour

€ 1,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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