Bonus post! Happy 2013!
This necklace is like visual Xanax. I look at it and I feel a happy, floaty assurance that everything is okay.
Made in 1910, this lovely, lovely thing is really more of a choker – it measures a mere 13.5 inches. It’s designed as a pierced old mine-cut diamond scalloped band, bezel-set along the center with a graduated series of old mine-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum. I’m not sure what I’d wear it with, but I know for damn sure I’d make it work somehow if I ever had the chance.
This necklace was sold as part of Christie’s October 21, 2009 Rare Jewels sale. All images and info are thanks to Christie’s.
This ring is from the first decade of the 20th century. It is is centered with a lustrous purplish pink natural pearl and highlighted with high quality European cut diamonds set into scrolling foliate motifs. I think the scrolling lines of the design, set with those lovely diamonds, make just a perfect complement to the creamy pearl in the middle.
