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Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings

Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings

$400.00

Description

DATE: Victorian, c.1900

Goldstone, also known as aventurine glass or monkstone, is a kind of glittering glass that has come to be used in jewellery as a semiprecious stone. One original manufacturing process for goldstone was invented in seventeenth-century Venice by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge. Urban legend says goldstone was an accidental discovery by unspecified Italian monks or the product of alchemy, but there is no pre-Miotti documentation to confirm this. A goldstone amulet from 12th- to 13th-century Persia in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania shows that other, earlier artisans were also able to create the material.

These striking antique dangle earrings feature neck tie (or cartoon sword) shaped goldstone drops. The stones have chamfered edges, secured at the top with 9k gold fittings connected to the ear wires by short lengths of chain. They're elegant and well formed, the goldstone glittering wildly as they move in the light. 

STONES 

Goldstone

MEASUREMENTS 

Drop: 5.6cm

Width: 1.1cm

WEIGHT 

7.7g

MARKS 

No marks present, tests as 9k gold

CONDITION 

Very good

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