Impressive Ring with Large Sapphire in Reddish Gold, Circa 1940

Into the Blue

Impressive Ring with Large Sapphire in Reddish Gold, Circa 1940

€ 2,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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

Among all gemstones, sapphire in particular has been attributed various mythical qualities over the centuries. In the Middle Ages, bishops wore this stone as a ring because they believed it warded off deceit and falsehood and protected the wearer from envy. In his natural history of gemstones Della storia naturale della cameo, Naples 1730, Giacinto Gimma wrote that the colour blue stands for Venus and the study of celestial bodies and stars, and is represented most purely in sapphire. It is possible that the meaning of sapphire in the so-called gemlore, the language of gemstones, developed from these associations in the 19th century. 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!" This ring has a large sapphire in its center. The stone of around 7.70 ct is dark blue, with occasional light reflections in dark green. In grazing light, very fine, silky inclusions sometimes shimmer in the stone beneath the surface of the table. The stone, which appears almost black at first glance, reveals a rich, subtle inner life. The sapphire is set in reddish gold. Six pairs of delicate prongs hold it above a simple undercut; a tapered ring band holds the stone on the finger, giving the ring a certain lightness despite its size. Rings like this one, with a single, large colored stone in modern-looking, minimalist gold settings, are not easy to date. Rings set with diamonds can be found as early as c. 1900. With larger colored stones, however, they only came into fashion later, in the 1930s and 1940s and occasionally in the following decade, whereby yellow gold was chosen and the settings quickly gained in weight and shape. We therefore believe that this ring was created around 1940. The hallmark also reveals that it was made in Germany. We were able to purchase the ring here in Berlin.

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Into the Blue

€ 2,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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