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Wonderful Earrings With Tourmalines & Diamonds, Around 1910 & Later


€ 6,390.00 *
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Wonderful Earrings With Tourmalines & Diamonds, Around 1910 & Later
Wonderful Earrings With Tourmalines & Diamonds, Around 1910 & Later
Description
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Tourmaline has a wide and bright colour palette: there are ruby red tourmalines, called Rubellite, as well as turquoise blue and forest green varieties. Famous is also the watermelon tourmaline, which combines pink and green in one crystal. Since the 18th century, these colourful stones have been imported to Europe from the old mines of Sri Lanka. This pair of earrings, which came to us from Hamburg, makes two tourmalines in a vibrant pink its protagonists. The cushion-shaped stones, with a few natural inclusions to attest to their authenticity, are each framed by a wreath of white brilliant-cut diamonds. A row of five diamonds in millegrained settings leads to the practical leverbacks, giving the pair a beautiful movement. The earrings seem to have been created using separate older elements. Some of the diamonds show older cuts and the diamonds set in a row in the upper part were probably set in the early 20th century. They then experienced a new use in the earrings. The pair is in excellent condition. We have commissioned a detailed appraisal confirming the quality of the materials used, which comes with the earrings.
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The name tourmaline comes from the Sinhalese word thuramali ("තුරමලි") or thoramalli ("තෝරමල්ලි"), which was commonly used for colorful gemstones found in Sri Lanka. For Europe, the name was first recorded in 1707, or 1711 under the name Chrysolithus Turmale. Larger quantities have been exported from Sri Lanka to Europe only since the middle of the 18th century. At that time the Dutch East India Company had practically a trade monopoly for tourmalines.
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Wonderful Earrings With Tourmalines & Diamonds, Around 1910 & Later
Rosy Future
€ 6,390.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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