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Jem 18k gold plated silver, amethyst and chalcedony necklace

Jem necklace in 18k gold plated 925 silver, amethyst and blue chalcedony

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Handmade 18k gold plated 925 silver necklace in a 28 mm circular piece. 6mm amethyst bead strand. and 16 mm blue chalcedony ball. Total length of the necklace 29 cm. 18k gold plated 925 silver clasp.

The amethyst It is a variety of quartz from Brazil that has an intense violet color. It is of magmatic origin and is usually found in the form of drusen in the closed cavities of geodes. The origin of the word "amethyst" comes from the Greek amethystos.

The chalcedony It is a variety of quartz mixed with moganite and is of volcanic origin. Its tone is light grayish blue although it works in different colors. Its name derives from Chalcedon, the ancient Byzantine city.

The blue chalcedony It is a variety of chalcedony from Namibia that belongs to the oxide group and owes its color to the multiple inclusions that have been deposited during its formation.

The silver 925 thousandths is covered with a thin layer of 2 or 3 microns of 18-karat gold through an electrolysis process. This treatment is called “18k plating”.

SKU: c-1855-amethyst-chalcedony
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craft culture

Craft time is a time that takes us out of the urgency of everyday life. A time that obeys the materials with which he works, listening to them and accompanying them. It is therefore a gesture far from routine, the one that machines repeat over and over again. The time for crafts in Belén Bajo is also the time for durable materials, metals, stones, to which timeless, simple shapes are proposed, with a certain geometric flavor.

Stylistic influences

Belén Bajo jewelery seeks maximum formal simplicity without giving up a playful touch. In part, its formal universe comes from the Central European rationalist and functional culture, its Mediterranean roots and the survival of the plastic forms of the culture of Al-Andalus in which a geometrized nature is presented by means of infinite patterns.

About Bethlehem Bajo

Belén Bajo trained at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. There, from formal experimentation, the accumulation of references and manual work, he developed a way of understanding both plastic creation, a universe of chromatic and material abstractions, as well as the value of the roundness of objects as carriers of symbolic meanings.