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Vintage Coral & Diamond Space Age Ring

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Vintage Coral & Diamond Space Age Ring

$1,000.00

Description

DATE: Space Age, c.1965

A bold Space Age ring dating from the 1960s. It's set with large angelskin coral cabochon, flanked on either side by a trio of brilliant cut diamonds. Modelled in 18 karat gold, with a thin double shank that splits out at the shoulders to surround the principal stone, appearing to form a tangent with the base of the setting when viewed from the side.

The Space Age, aka Atomic Age, refers to the period between 1957 and the early 1970s (although some would argue we're still in it). Movements in architecture, interior design, film and television, automotive design, music, fashion, and jewellery were directly inspired by the cultural obsessions of the time: atomic science, the Space Race and space exploration generally, futurism, and, at its heart, modernism. The designs were forward looking and often radical, incorporating the functionalism and utilitarian trends of the modernist movement and fusing these with new, futuristic forms and advances in material science - plastics particularly. Jewellery of the period was often directly inspired by celestial objects or spacecraft (Sputnik, the Apollo lunar lander, Starship Enterprise, etc. were all replicated as miniature, wearable pieces of precious metal), indeed Jackie Onassis celebrated her 40th birthday wearing a pair of Apollo 11 Moon earrings by LALAoUNIS.

STONES 

Angelskin Coral - 1.6 x 1.2cm

Brilliant Cut Diamonds

MEASUREMENTS 

Head: 1.7 x 1.7cm

Width of band: 1.8mm

WEIGHT 

5.6g

MARKS 

No marks present, tests as 18k gold

CONDITION 

Excellent

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