A Continental Art Deco aquamarine and diamond ring, c.1920
A Continental Art Deco aquamarine and diamond ring, c.1920,
with an elongated octagonal step cut aquamarine, double claw set to a shallow hand engraved underbezel, with rose cut diamond set white claws. A rose cut diamond and an old eight cut diamond, milligrain set at each shoulder with engraved yellow guards, faced with white to a plain yellow shank. Marked 585, 2.84g.
Finger size O½
Sold for £780
Condition report:
A small chip to one corner of the aquamarine.
The lower shank feels a little thin but it appears to have always been this width and depth.
Tarnished.
2.84g as catalogued.
16.90 x 7.60 x 5.10mm approximately.
Accute cut/canted corners.
As the ring is Continental it has been through a UK Assay office. It is marked as 585 which is legal on the Continent and spot tested as approximately 14ct gold. This does not mean it would necessarily pass Assay as 14ct gold in this country.
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A Continental Art Deco aquamarine and diamond ring, c.1920,
with an elongated octagonal step cut aquamarine, double claw set to a shallow hand engraved underbezel, with rose cut diamond set white claws. A rose cut diamond and an old eight cut diamond, milligrain set at each shoulder with engraved yellow guards, faced with white to a plain yellow shank. Marked 585, 2.84g.
Finger size O½
Sold for £780
Condition report:
A small chip to one corner of the aquamarine.
The lower shank feels a little thin but it appears to have always been this width and depth.
Tarnished.
2.84g as catalogued.
16.90 x 7.60 x 5.10mm approximately.
Accute cut/canted corners.
As the ring is Continental it has been through a UK Assay office. It is marked as 585 which is legal on the Continent and spot tested as approximately 14ct gold. This does not mean it would necessarily pass Assay as 14ct gold in this country.
