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Antique Early Victorian Blue Enamel and Table Cut Diamond Snake Ring
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he serpent was a beautiful Victorian era symbol of everlasting love and devotion. This delightful early Victorian snake is crowned with a rare golden brown table-cut diamond. Rendered in 18K gold, the snakes coiled body is hand textured and accented with sky blue enamel spots. This ring is an unsizable US 5.25
Diamond: eye clean 5.5 x 5.7 mm, closed back - depth unavailable
Weight: 5.6 grams
Measurements: 11mm face, 6mm shank
Table Cuts: It was not until the thirteenth century AD that the first true diamond cut appears, known as the table cut. The Table Cut represents the second diamond cutting technique ever developed. The simplest of all methods of faceting a diamond (or creating additional planes on the surface of a stone), it consists of removing the top and to bottom points of the octahedron. Though it is the hardest substance known to man, the crystalline structure of diamond is such that a relatively weak plane exists in parallel layers through the stone from top point to bottom point, which can be ground down with the application of another diamond, and then polished with diamond dust.
This technology likely originated in the Middles East or Venice, along the major trade route from the sole source of diamonds at that time—India—to the courts of Europe. The ability to grind further facets, as seen on modern diamonds, would not be possible until the invention of the rotary diamond wheel during the fifteenth century. Table cut diamonds set into Medieval and Renaissance jewels are extremely rare, as diamonds were highly uncommon and, as a result, very valuable at the time. Often colourless stones, such as quartz and white sapphire, were cut in this manner to mimic diamond. Furthermore, most old table cut diamonds were subsequently unset and re-cut, once technology advanced, over the following centuries, rendering any such jewel a remarkable survival.
Notes: There are some losses and wear to the blue enamel.
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