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Antique Victorian Silver 18K Gold Diamond Strass Ring
Antique Victorian Silver 18K Gold Diamond Strass Ring
Item Details
Description
  • Item: Antique ring with diamond rose cuts and red strass Victorian ring
  • Condition: excellent condition
  • Country of origin: France
  • Style specifics: The Grand Victorian Period - Experts divide the reign of Queen Victoria, also called The Victorian era (1837 - 1901) into three periods of about twenty years each; The Romantic Victorian Period (1837 - 1860), The Grand Victorian Period (1860 - 1880), and the Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period (1880 - 1901).
  • Period: ca. 1860
  • Material: Silver on top and backed with 18K yellow gold
  • Diamonds: 53 rose cut diamonds and senailles . A senaille is a simplified rose cut diamond, a small diamond chip with perhaps a few polished facets. We do not have the weight of the rose cuts diamonds nor the senailles which is normal in our trade when it comes to rose cut diamonds and senailles.
  • Precious stones: Four red strass stones as ruby imitation (also called paste)
  • Hallmarks: The French control mark for 18K gold representing an eagle's head that was in use in France from about 1838.
  • Dimensions: top of ring 2,40 cm (0,94 inch) x 1,50 cm (0,59 inch)
  • Weight: 5.20 gram (3.34 dwt)
  • Ring size Continental: 52 & 16½ , Size US 6 , Size UK: L
  • Comes with certificate

    Style: Victorian - Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. The Victorian era is known for its eclectic revival and interpretation of historic styles and the introduction of cross-cultural influences from the middle east and Asia in furniture, fittings, and Interior decoration. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a regrettable excess of ornament. The Arts and Crafts movement, the aesthetic movement, Anglo-Japanese style, and Art Nouveau style have their beginnings in the late Victorian era.

    The red stones are so-called Strass stones. Strass - A brilliant paste made out of lead glass and used to simulate various transparant gemstones. It is a borosilicate of potassium and lead, with small quantities of alumina. When uncoloured it was used to simulate diamonds, being transparent and very refractive, although much softer; the addition of metallic oxides and salts produces coloured strass to imitate most known gemstones. It is named after Georges-Frédéric Strass (1701-1773) who was born at Wolfsheim, near Strasbourg, where he learned to make jewelry and artificial gems; he moved to Paris in 1724, and there invented, from 1730 to 1734, new techniques for making imitation precious stones (imitation diamonds having been known in Paris in the 17th century). He ceded the making of such ware in 1752 to Georges-Michel Bapst (1718-1780), husband of his niece. Such artificial gems are now made mainly in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and France. Many writers and standard dictionaries have attributed the invention to a Joseph Stras(s)(er) of Vienna, but no record of such a person is known, and the legends about him has been discredited.

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  • Location: This item ships from Belgium.

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    Antique Victorian Silver 18K Gold Diamond Strass Ring

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