Three aquamarine and diamond pendants.

Who doesn’t love a good aquamarine and diamond pendant? No one, that’s who.

This first beauty is early Art Deco/Edwardian, from 1910. It features a lively, oval-cut aquamarine within a frame of circular cut diamonds and wreathed in floral and foliate details. The trace link chain it was sold with is just over 20 inches long, so this is a longer necklace (which I think is perfect for such a bold aquamarine and diamond pendant).

This lovely aquamarine and diamond pendant is also from the 1910’s (I never said I wasn’t predictable).  It features a pear-shaped, faceted aquamarine drop suspended from circular-cut, rose diamond and pearl surmount on a curb link chain. This one’s a bit shorter, clocking in around 17 inches.

It’s very simple, but I love it. The lush, curved aquamarine drop, the tiny pearl, the perfectly shaped diamond-set detail. It takes my breath away.

 

 

This one is totally different. It’s contemporary and is all hard angles where the first two were soft curves. It’s centered by a huge emerald cut aquamarine (79 carats!) surrounded by  calibré-cut sapphires and old European-cut diamonds. The pendant is  topped by a triangular diamond and sapphire surmount. Total diamond weight, 2.05 carats. Total sapphire weight, 3.30 carats.

I absolutely love the contrast of the sapphire in this piece, but I’m not totally sold on the surmount. It’s so sharp looking. What do you think?

All images and info in this post are thanks to Sotheby’s. Please see individual descriptions of each aquamarine and diamond pendant for source links.

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