Midnight Pendant

Midnight pendant - platinum, diamond and tanzanite

 
The beautiful tanzanite is at the base of the ‘midnight’ pendant. I have set it in platinum with two round diamonds and wanted to keep a simplicity to the design to show of the stones. I gave a soft satin finish to the platinum which reminds me of a still warm evening and the feathers of a barn owl!

Tanzanite was discovered in 1967 near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and is a form of blue / purple zoisite. It was named Tanzanite by Tiffany & Co after its country of origin. It is a fascinating gemstone as it is trichroic (displays three different colours depending on which angle the crystal is viewed in) and its colour often varies depending on the lighting it is viewed in. The most valuable tanzanite is a deep velvety purple colour, and It can be prone to being fragile, so a pendant is an ideal way of wearing it: rings can be more vulnerable and have to be worn with care.

 

Midnight pendant in its hand painted display box

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Green Gables.

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