Art Deco "Pools of Light" Rock Quartz Crystal Necklace

Item Details

This type of jewelry dates from the Art Deco era (1920s–1930s) and was an offshoot of the Chinoiserie craze of the time.
They are round orbs of clear rock crystal. This is the defining characteristic; although they look like large clear marbles, a genuine orb must be rock crystal – not glass or any other material. Rock crystal is the clear transparent variety of quartz (silicon dioxide).
When you look at something through a crystal sphere, what you see will be upside down. This is because a spherical shape acts like a convex lens and “flips” the light coming from, and thus the image of what you are looking at. Some people claim that only rock crystal orbs will show things upside down and glass ones will not, but that’s not necessarily true although crystal will do the job better simply because of its internal structure.

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Item #

ITMG410121