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Virgin Mary Madonna Plique A Jour Art Nouveau Pendant Charm 18 ct Yellow Gold

$1,175.96List Price

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Virgin Mary Enamel 18 ct Yellow Gold French Pendant created in the Plique A Jour technique. Necklace belongs to Art Nouveau period (1885/1914 years) decorated with the green and blue color enamel and four white pearls. Its very special Virgin Mary pendant depicted on the stained-glass window coming from the magnificent cathedrals of France like Chartres Cathedral or Notre-Dame. The colours green and blue means the harmony between land and sky. Some history facts to know about the idea of stained glass windows presented in this unique piece of jewellery. In around 827 Louis the Pious had given St Denis Abbey a Greek manuscript of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, which he had himself received from Michael II, Emperor of Byzantium. This manuscript and John Scotus Eriugena's interpretation of it was the origin for the whole mystical Free Spirit current in medieval theology, which strongly influenced Suger, an exact contemporary of Hugues de Saint-Victor, the most notable master in Paris at the time. He was comforted by his vision of the world, written in 1125 in his commentaries on Pseudo-Denis' Celestial Hierarchies. Georges Duby wrote "Hugues de Saint-Denis proclaimed that each sensed image is a sign or "sacrament" of invisible things, those things which the soul will discover when it is freed from its bodily envelope". He laid out three stages in this progression from the visible to the invisible: Cogito: exploring the perceivable world by studying abstract thought Meditatio: the soul looking upon itself introspectively Contemplatio: intuition of truth The first affirmation Suger made is work was "God is light", quoting from the First Epistle of John 1,5 ("The news that we have learned from him and are announcing to you is that God is light and that in him there is nothing of darkness"). He backed up this identification of God with light with other texts from the Old and New Testaments and argued that such a truth had to be made manifest in a cathedral, since in such a church a bishop taught his Christian flock, a foretaste of the heavenly Jerusalem described in Revelations 21, 11-14 ("Its lustre was like that of a most precious stone, of jaspar stone transparent like crystal"). So, this pendant presenting a synergy the light coming from heaven and Virgin Mary giving this light to us. Composition : 18 ct Yellow Gold. French Gold marks. The chain on the photo is not proposed for sell, shown only for demonstration purposes.

Stone:
Pearl
Stone Cut:
Ball Cut
Weight:
4.3 g
Dimensions:
Height: 1.23 in (31 mm)Diameter: 0.95 in (24 mm)
Style:
Art Nouveau
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
Early 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1900
Condition:
Minor losses.
Seller Location:
Mārupe, LV
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU4107223018972

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