Antique Victorian Bohemian Garnet Seed order Pearl Cluster Halo Pendant

Diameter: 7/8" (excluding bail)
Material: Alloy (does not have silver/gold content), natural garnet
Weight: 3.6 grams
Mark: No mark
Era: Victorian

Why You'll Love It
In this antique victorian garnet pendant, it's all in the tiny details. Sitting at the focal point of a tiered design is a singular, bohemian-cut, natural garnet. Surrounded by luminous seed pearls, the halo motif adds delicacy to bold shimmer. Likely from a larger piece of jewelry originally, this piece was converted into a pendant. Petite in stature yet eye-catching, its dimensional shape makes sure you shine from every angle.

Condition and Quality
● Bright patina with minimal surface wear to the setting. No dents.
● Fresh sheen, light surface wear, and no chipping on the garnets.
● Secure bail, is a later addition and not original.
● All seed pearls are intact and in place

Collector Note

On Bohemian Garnet Jewelry. Bohemian garnets are small, intensely red natural gemstones mined and cut with a distinct style of faceting in the Czech region, where some of the highest quality garnets are found. The stones were most popular during the Victorian era, admired for their vivid color and inner glow and were deeply associated with romantic love. Jewelry using Bohemian garnets often cluster the stones to create a full, brilliant-red piece that's rich with texture and sparkle. The wide array of subtly different styles of Bohemian garnet jewelry and their popularity throughout history solidified Bohemian garnet jewelry as its own collectible category.

On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid. order