SOLD. Ⓔ This is a piece of estate jewelry.

“Alone in my house during a rainstorm I open the back door so that the sound comes in & rain makes a little puddle inside the screen. It is early afternoon, though dark, I lie on the bed […] I am light, as if there were no blame or guilt—light inside, heavy out—each part of me balanced, supported.” — Toi Derricotte, “A Nap,” I: New and Selected Poems. 

The persistence of beauty is true of vintage jewelry. Preserved here: The hexagonal setting, a classic way to enlarge the look of a “modest” natural diamond. The wide-open filigree,  customary of older, die-struck jewelry. And, finally, our favorite elusive element: the rounded bombé shape.