The three corollas in a row along the finger: amethyst at the top, blue topaz in the middle, citrine quartz on the largest corolla

Collection Fiore d'Inverno·Anello·Floral motif drawn from winter flowers

Fiore d'Inverno ring in silver with three rotating corollas on a pivot, citrine quartz, amethyst and blue topaz

Name: Fiore d'Inverno ring in silver with three rotating corollas on a pivot, citrine quartz, amethyst and blue topaz
Brand: Anna Gioielli
SKU: AA249
Price: 350.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Three corollas in a row across the finger, and each one turns on itself.

€350,00 AA249

Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.

Three silver corollas in a row along the finger, of three different sizes, and none of them is fixed: each is threaded onto a pin and turns on itself. The largest carries the citrine, the middle one the blue topaz, the third the purple amethyst — but the flowers turn, and the pattern you see from above is never twice the same. Inside the cup the surface stays marked by the folds that run out from the center; the rim is wavy and out of true, left where the first fold put it. The band is not smooth: it is hammered, and beneath the flowers it opens into two arms.

Twenty-two grams of 925 silver and forty-eight millimeters of span: the ring takes the whole knuckle and rises above the line of the finger. The pins are the part that decides the piece, because they have to hold the corollas and at the same time leave them free; they are riveted from the back, and the flattened head shows at the center of each flower. The seats for the stones are in the middle of the cup, and they are the only flat point left in a sheet hollowed by hand. The studio states neither the carat weight nor the cut of the three gems.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

22,00 gramsSilver 925‰

Metals: Silver 925‰
Style: Floral motif drawn from winter flowers
Finish: Polished
Dimensions: Overall length 48 mm
Technique: Made entirely by hand in the company's goldsmith's studio.

The stones

Citrine quartz

At the center of the larger corolla

Color: Yellow
Note: Carat weight and cut not stated

Amethyst

At the center of one of the two smaller corollas

Color: Purple
Note: Carat weight and cut not stated

Blue topaz

At the center of the middle corolla

Color: Light blue
Note: Carat weight and cut not stated

Close front view: the folds that start at the centre of each cup and the polished wavy edge

Side view: the hammered band that opens into two arms beneath the corollas

The ring resting against a branch: the hammered texture of the band in full light

The ring turned the other way: the flowers have rotated and the order of the colours comes up reversed

The ring on the finger: how far the three corollas project beyond the outline of the hand

The reverse: at the centre of each corolla the riveted head of the pin on which the flower turns is visible

Overall view in three-quarter view, with the forty-eight millimetres running along the finger

How it is made

The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.

Corolla from a single sheet: The corolla is not an assembly of petals: it is a single sheet, hollowed into a shallow cup and left irregular at the rim, with the folds running out from the center. The wavy rim is not corrected twice — silver once stretched does not come back — so the first fold is the one that stays. In the middle of the cup is the one point that has to stay flat: it is the seat of the stone, and if the cup has moved there the setting will not sit.
Setting rotating on a pin: The corolla is not soldered to the band: it is threaded onto a pin and riveted from the back, and stays free to turn on itself. The rivet is set once only, cold, on silver that is already polished: flattened too little the flower rattles and in time works loose, flattened too much it clamps the sheet against the band and the turn is blocked for good. Between the two there is no practice blow, because once the head of the pin has been spread it cannot be raised again — and under the hammer there is a thin cup that must take nothing.
Hammering: The shank is hammered until the surface takes on an irregular texture. No blow is the same as the one before, so no ring is the same as another.

I don't look at what others are doing: I would rather create in my own style. That is what makes our jewelry recognizable.
Fabio Gori — Anna Gioielli, Tosi

Made for you

Every ring is made to the size of the person who will wear it: we settle it together before work begins.

The goldsmith's workshop is also the place where made-to-measure jewellery is created and family pieces are restored: if you have an idea, or something you want brought back to how it was, that is where it starts.

Ask for a made-to-measure piece

Made by

Anna Gioielli

A goldsmith's workshop in Tosi, on the slopes of the Pratomagno: Anna opened it in 1988, her sons Fabio and Francesco carry it on. Piercing, repoussé, chasing and burin engraving — the Florentine school, with the workshop in full view of the shop.

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