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Easter Egg Pendant
GIO-MC-13819
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€215.00
Easter egg pendant with chain, handmade with fired enamel in 925 silver.
Easter egg pendant with chain, handmade with fired enamel in 925 silver. Chain in 925 silver bathed in 18k gold, length 23 cm.
The eggs are adorned with traditional motifs of Christian iconography such as the lily, fish and made with the ancient hot Champlevé technique, which gives rise to brilliant pieces, with intense colors and extraordinarily durable.
The painted egg of the time of the Apostles is the main symbol of not only Orthodox Easter, but also European Easter. According to legend, it was Mary Magdalene who gave it as an Easter gift to the emperor Tiberius, exclaiming: "Christ is risen!". The emperor did not believe her, stating that neither a human being is capable of being resurrected, nor a white egg is capable of turning red. But at the same moment the egg in Maria's hand turned red.
The particular Easter symbolism of the egg is not only made up of this legend. The egg itself has always been a sign of the birth of new life, and its two-compound being has been associated with the man-divinity of Christ. Also, eggs are widely used in icon painting: tempera is mixed with egg yolk. In other words, the egg directly participates in the wonder of the transformation of an ordinary table (inanimate nature) into living and wonderful images of Christ, the Mother of God and the saints.
In any case, during the Easter period all of us - believers and non-believers - buy chocolate eggs as gifts and on Easter days we consume egg-based meals.
The tradition of jewel eggs began in the late 19th century, when Nicholas II's court jeweler Carl Fabergé created a collection of gift eggs for the emperor's family. These eggs brought Fabergé international recognition and themselves became an integral part of many jewelry collections. By the early 20th century many jewelry companies had begun producing painted eggs as Easter souvenirs. They were made of glass, porcelain, ivory or walrus tusk, wood, gold, silver; they were painted, inlaid, enamelled and had sculptures. Cases, watches, pendants, brooches and earrings were sold in the simple yet perfect shape of an egg, which looked beautiful and organic in any piece.
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