Shimmering Moonlight

Enchanting Victorian Gold Necklace with Moonstones & Ruby, c. 1900


€ 1,690.00 *
Content 1 piece
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Enchanting Victorian Gold Necklace with Moonstones & Ruby, c. 1900
Enchanting Victorian Gold Necklace with Moonstones & Ruby, c. 1900
Description
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This necklace is delicate and graceful. In the middle of a fine fantasy chain made of gold is a setting of eight light blue moonstones and a ruby, which creates an exciting color contrast. The moonstones shimmer beautifully in the most delicate shades of blue, as if the moonlight that gives them their name had been captured in them. They are connected by fine gold bars that appear almost invisible from the front. Small anchor chains are arranged like garlands and frame two suspended moonstones in a particularly attractive way. The moonstone is characterized above all by its adularescence, a bluish-white shimmer that glides over the surface of the stone when it is moved. Specimens from the classic country of origin, Sri Lanka, are usually almost transparent to milky white and have a delicate, bluish sheen. Exactly this quality can also be observed in the stones used here. With its movable suspensions, the necklace flows gently over the décolleté and changes its appearance with every movement of the wearer. Pieces of jewellery like this were particularly prized in Victorian England, not least because the country had access to the most important moonstone deposits via its colony of Ceylon. The stones are set in slightly reddish gold, which is given a warm, almost buttery sheen through fine gilding, creating a particularly beautiful contrast to the cool shimmer of the moonstones.
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Enchanting Victorian Gold Necklace with Moonstones & Ruby, c. 1900
Shimmering Moonlight
€ 1,690.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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