The design had prongs lifting a diamond above a slender gold band. Like those other American icons from the era, the Tiffany Setting has endured.įounder Charles Lewis Tiffany conceived the Setting to glorify a single diamond as a symbol of everlasting love. In 1886, the year the Tiffany Setting launched, the Statue of Liberty was open to the public and Coca-Cola appeared on grocery shelves for the first time. During the time engagement rings were often worn on the second or the third finger of the right hand, because people believe that one or both of these fingers had veins connected to the heart. Though it is not known with absolute certainty if the ring in the painting is her engagement ring, it could have been. Jewelers mounted them in their natural octahedral form, which looks like two pyramids joined at the base.Ī Niklas Reiser painting of Mary from the Renaissance era showing her wearing a solitaire on her right hand, is often used to illustrate the point of her engagement ring.
Lapidaries did not have the tools to cut a diamond. Diamonds sparkled with the purity of fidelity or faithfulness and durability. Like all precious stones at the time there was symbolism behind the gem.
A letter written to Maximilian before he proposed read, “At the betrothal, your Grace must have a ring set with a diamond and also a gold ring.” Many believe the first diamond engagement ring was given to Mary of Burgundy by the Archduke Maximilian of Austria in 1477.
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