Featured Snake pendant and glass pendant necklace

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All of the above.

 

Lovely fob, Barn.

Absolutely!

I agree.

I agree.

Second that.

 

Thank you!

 

Thanks! It's one of my favorites I've found so far.

 

Kyra that necklace is stunning. Really cute snake. Don't know why I like them on jewellery but I'm not keen in the flesh. Mind you, there was that incident in Greece near some fantastic ruins when what I thought was black water pipe slithered over my foot. Apparently I levitated higher than a 28 week pregnant person should physically have been able to do. Surprisingly I didn't end up with my first child having dual nationality!. I also said some very rude words that make me blush still 9 years later.

I digress, Thankyou for the great information. Mr snake will languish in my keep hoard and will have a fine chain looped through rather than messing about with such a fragile piece trying to solder it.
Any ideas on the other piece or is it just modern tat?
Thankyou as always

 

Sorry, no idea for the id of your interesting glass necklace
Your levitating heavy pregnancy story, so well described, made me laugh very hard, and... I feel sorry for that too

 

I'm not sure this was a pendant. Pendants don't have feet per se.

You could wear it if you put a light chain through as Owned suggested. Or you could put a jump ring and hang it a little askew.

 

This is absolutely the BEST explanation of how we seem to just know the dates on things. Not just jewelry, but glass, furniture, pottery, etc.
Thank you.

 

Or two jump rings in the places where the arrows are and attach two halves of a chain to the jump rings.

 

You can get sort of double footed bales, too. Tripod shaped as it were. That would work.

 

The area between your 2 arrows shows a broken "wire/bale" area where it was soldered to the piece.

 

Yes, I saw that, but it could also have been a third leg as in a picture frame. I know, not likely, but I have not seen two feet/legs on the back of a pendant before.
Course, I haven't seen everything.
It was all just a thought.

 

I would bet glass. Having looked at many, many things that are or are meant to look like banded agate, I also get a gestalt from a cluster of tiny indicators, the way kyra & AJ were discussing how they arrived at a date.

I also think it was part of a parure. Doubt you had to make a choice between wearing the earrings or having all 3 pendants attached to the necklace. Detachable bits so often get lost; I see so many convertible pin/pendant pieces that have lost the bail. I further think that this is only half the necklace, that there was another piece, lacking hooks for pendants, that could be joined with your piece to make a longer necklace.

Neither have I. Can't imagine they are just a superfluous addition, but not envisioning how this snaky bit was used.

 

Same here. Besides, banded onyx glass was usually used in gilded jewellery, and banded onyx or agate in gold or silver jewellery, so it makes sense.

 

There are exceptions! My necklace is banded agate on gilt metal though.

 

Gilt silver maybe?

 

No no, pure base metal!

 

That is unusual, but I've seen it before, which is why I said 'usually'.

 

Still wondering why a rather common stone command such high prices, understanding the cut of a perfect bull's eye effect cab is tricky...
Any idea?