The story of Victorian jewelry starts in 1837 and ends around 1901. This period represents the reign of the longest ruling monarch of England, Queen Victoria. It's of great interest to avid jewelry collectors the world over that the personal life of Queen Victoria actually altered the pattern of design so dramatically that antique jewelry from the Victorian era has now been sub-categorized into the Early Victorian or Romantic Period between 1837-60, the Mid Victorian or the Grand Period between 1860-80 and the Late Victorian or Aesthetic Period between 1880-01.
With the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 and her marriage to her cousin Prince Albert in 1840 the enchanting world of Victorian jewelry opened up. Queen Victoria's love for her husband was legendary. During this romantic period the themes of antique jewelry were flowers, grapes, serpents and birds. Celtic motifs followed with Scottish pebble jewelry. The queen's love for her king, husband, consort and chief adviser was reflected in the jewelry of the day that was in coral and pearls with intricate gold engravings and exquisite works in enamel. Online shops sell moonlight pearl earrings from this period.
With the death of her husband to typhoid in 1861 the queen went into mourning. Her somber and dull mood was reflected in the historical jewelry of the 1861-1888 period. Dark shades of colors and material were used like black enamel and onyx. She and her nation stirred out of mourning and during the late Victorian period there was again a return to normalcy if not merry making. Diamonds entered the scene in Victorian jewelry of the period and so did other gems. The designs used were insects in jewels and flowers in enamel.
The symbolism in Victorian jewelry consisted of representing tears with pearls and love by heart and arrow of cupid. Lizards and salamanders were used to represent passion. Today online shops are flush with antique jewelry from the Victorian period. You can buy bracelets in sterling silver with a clasp shaped like a heart, earrings and anklets and lockets reminiscent of the mourning period when locks of hair were placed inside the lockets.
Generally include jewelry, natural jade jewelry (natural stones, natural jade, natural and organic gems) artificial stones (man-made gems, recycling precious stones, mosaic stones, synthetic stones) there are precious metal jewelry: gold, silver, platinum and "beauty", that is gorgeous crystal, dazzling. Gem if not the United States can not be precious stones, this beauty or performance for the brilliant colors, or performance is transparent and clean, or with a special optical effects (such as cat's eye, change color, luminous and so on), or a special pattern ( such as the chrysanthemum stone, agate, jade plum, etc.). Jewelry is a decorative ornaments, precious stones on it are mostly set in precious metals or semi-precious stones on. Traced back to human prehistory, there will take the animal teeth, shells and other objects used for decoration. With the development of human society, jewelry, accessories, uses a more evolved from the religious, strategic and social class of symbolic objects.
Jewellery - Categories
Generalized classification of precious stones
So, the broad stones which also includes things? It includes inorganic and organic gem stones into two categories.
Inorganic natural gems and synthetic gems gemstone points. Natural gemstone natural geological processes that formed the gems, they are from a single mineral crystals or by the number of single, complex mineral composition of rocks gathered together, such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, peridot, crystal (single minerals) and Jade, She too Tsui, soft too (rock), etc.; artificial gemstones, including synthetic and imitation gemstones (also known as imitation precious stones). Department of Synthetic gem of a natural gem that people in accordance with the chemical composition, the formation of physical and chemical conditions in the laboratory or the factory synthesized "inorganic gem", and their physical and chemical properties of the same or similar natural stones, such as the artificial Diamond, synthetic ruby, synthetic crystal, etc.; fake gems refers to a similar look with some plastic, glass and other products, or inorganic compounds, their physical and chemical properties similar to natural stones with no fixed non-contact. Such items are: imitation diamond cubic zirconia (the so-called "Soviet drilling"), the plastic imitation pearls, imitation jade green glass.
Organic gems that his role in the formation and biological or biotechnology-related gems, such as coral, pearls, amber and so on.
Narrow classification of precious stones
What do you mean gems and narrow it? It specifically refers to those posed by a single mineral crystal gems, such as diamonds, red (blue) gems, peridot, crystal, etc.; many single, complex mineral composition of the rock is classified as jade stones range; professional name for people to use more of these : precious stones, jade, or collectively, the "gem", which derived from the "Gems learning" the discipline name.
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