An opal, pearl and diamond pendant “Face of the Night” set with a solid and two opal dublets, white and peacock coloured semi-baroque seed pearls and brilliant-cut diamonds weighing a total of app. 0.20 ct., mounted in 18–20k gold. Colour: Top Wesselton-Wesselton (G-H). Clarity: VS. Signed Griegst, 833. L. app. 9.5 cm. Weight app. 44 g. Circa 1966–67.
The pendant is made by the cire perdue technique in order to achieve a greater artistic expression, and this technique gave Arje Griegst a larger flexibility in positioning the stones than he would have had in the traditional gold smithing. A news article from 1967 describes Arje Griegst's new jewellery which uses the human face as a subject, “A new necklace that is downright frightful. A melting face with eyes and mouth as holes of dark opals, a fantastically technical work, modelled in wax, cast in thick 20 ct. gold, acidified, chased and polished.” Kerstin Wickman, Goldsmith, Designer and Sculptor, p. 93. Similar depicted p. 97 and 365. Vandkunsten 2013. This pendant is presumably one of three pendants.
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Jewellery and handbags, 15 June 2023