Blue, Gold & White

Vintage Gold Ring with Lapis Lazuli & Diamonds, c. 1990


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Vintage Gold Ring with Lapis Lazuli & Diamonds, c. 1990
Vintage Gold Ring with Lapis Lazuli & Diamonds, c. 1990
Description
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Lapis lazuli has been prized for its unique color since ancient times. The stone, which has been mined in the mountains of Afghanistan since ancient times, is not only used for jewellery, but is just as often ground up and used as a precious pigment for painting. Artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo used lapis lazuli for their incomparable masterpieces, whose blue inspires with its fresh luminosity centuries later. Michael Baxandall, in his famous book The Reality of Images. Painting and Experience in Renaissance Italy, Michael Baxandall describes how artists and patrons in Renaissance Florence had detailed contracts drawn up specifying how much lapis pigment was to be used for the Madonna's mantle in a fresco, for example. As the pigment was so extraordinarily expensive, its purchase represented a large part of the expenditure for the work, sometimes costing more than the artist received for his work. The intense luminosity of the lapis also characterizes this ring. A lapis lazuli weighing 3.52 ct has been cut into a large cabochon. The stone is held by a bezel setting in high-carat yellow gold. The ring shoulders are decorated with applied curves. Nine diamonds are set to the left and right, accompanying the blue center stone with their sparkle. The diamond setting is rhodium-plated so that the ring shines in the attractive color combination of blue, gold and white. This colorful ring from around 1990 came to us here in Berlin.
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Vintage Gold Ring with Lapis Lazuli & Diamonds, c. 1990
Blue, Gold & White
€ 980.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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