Two Tone Sterling Silver Gold Vermeil Turquoise Dreamcatcher Necklace - 20 Inch

Two tone Italian 925 sterling silver dreamcatcher pendant necklace with gold vermeil over the pendant and a bright sterling silver box chain, marked 925, ITALY and SU in an oval. The pendant is an open round frame filled with a fine woven web worked in gold, the strands crossing at irregular intervals so the openings vary in size and light passes straight through the disc. A heart sits at the upper center, bezel set with turquoise chips on one side and copper toned foil on the other, divided roughly down the middle so the two materials read as distinct halves. A long feather charm hangs free below the web on its own ring, detailed with fine parallel barbs running along both sides of a raised shaft.

The split between metals is what makes this wear well. A gold pendant on a gold chain reads as one continuous mass and the pendant stops being an event, while white metal running up to the collarbone draws a cool line that stops exactly where the gold begins. The eye lands on the disc because the color changes there. Inside the heart the same logic runs at small scale, with the copper warm against cool turquoise, so the piece carries four distinct colors at once and none of them cancels another out.

Pendant 2 inches long on a 20 inch box chain with a spring ring clasp. That length drops the pendant to mid chest where a disc this wide has room to sit flat.

Verifications:
Sterling silver has been verified using JSP Silver Testing Solution.

Details:
Designer Mark: SU
Metal: Two Tone, 925 Sterling Silver with Gold Vermeil Pendant
Chain Metal: 925 Sterling Silver
Origin: Italy
Hallmarks: 925, ITALY, SU in an oval
Pendant Design: Dreamcatcher with Woven Web
Center Inlay: Turquoise chips with copper toned foil, heart shape
Inlay Setting: Bezel
Charm: Hanging Feather
Chain Style: Box Chain
Clasp: Spring Ring
Pendant Length: 2 Inch
Necklace Length: 20 Inch
Condition: Excellent estate condition

Fun Facts:
Turquoise is among the oldest gemstones humans have mined, with Egyptian workings in the Sinai running back roughly six thousand years, yet its name records a place it never came from. It reached medieval Europe along Turkish trading routes, so the French called it pierre turquoise, the Turkish stone, and the name stuck even though Turkey has never been a source.
Vermeil means gold over sterling silver rather than over base metal, and in the United States the term is regulated, requiring a gold layer of at least 2.5 microns before a piece can legally be called vermeil. The historical method for achieving it was fire gilding, in which gold was dissolved in mercury, painted on, and the mercury driven off with heat. It produced a superb finish and poisoned the gilders doing it, which is why the technique was abandoned in favor of electroplating.