Edwardian Platinum & Pear Shaped Diamond Pansy Cluster Ring

This ring is to die for! It is platinumDerives from the Spanish word ‘platina’ meaning ‘little silver’. Acknowledged since the 1900s, platinum’s durability and natural brightness has been and still is today highly treasured A metallic element prized for its rarity, whiteness, high tensile strength and insusceptibility to corrosion, platinum first became widely used in jewellery in the late ninete… and has been bezelA metal rim which holds the stone in a piece of jewellery. This metal band has its top edges smoothed over to better hold the stone in place. and millegrainA tiny decorative feature – normally in platiunum – in which minute beads of metal are raised along the edge of a setting, which adds texture and enhances the sparkling effect. set with five pear shaped diamonds with a small diamondA precious, lustrous gemstone made of highly compressed carbon. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to mankind. Colours of diamonds range from colourless, yellow, orange and brown to almost black. Natural coloured (or ‘fancy’) diamonds can be extremely rare. The cut, colour, clarity and carat weight of a diamond are the criteria jewellers use… in the centre in a pansy shape. The pansy traditionally in antiqueFrom the Latin ‘antiquus’, meaning ‘old and long in existence’, it is generally used to refer to collectible artifacts of at least 100 years of age.
jewellery represents a love message. It is a pun on the French “Pense a moi” (Think of me). So this ring would have been given as an engagement or a gift of love ring in the early 1900s. The shankThe circle of metal that attaches to the decorative part of a ring and encircles the finger. has a lovely naturalistic twist, like a stalk, as it joins the top. It is as appropriate to give to a loved one now as it was back then.