Heart pendant in openwork silver with lozenges enclosed by burgundy enamel, chain included

A silver heart domed on both faces, hollow inside. The sheet is not solid: it is pierced in a close lattice of identical lozenges, set three by three around the same vertex, so that each set of three reads as a little cube seen corner on and the whole face becomes a row of cubes leaning against one another; where three cubes meet, the silver left between the lozenges draws a six-pointed star. Every lozenge is filled with bordeaux enamel, which stops just below the edge of the metal and stays slightly convex: at rest it is an almost black aubergine, and held against the light, where the light comes in through the voids of the opposite face, it catches fire in orange-red. The ribs between one lozenge and the next stay polished silver, and they are the only thing that picks up direct light. Around it runs a plain band with no holes, and at the top on the right lobe are the hallmarks. The bail is a wide plate that narrows as it rises, scored with parallel grooves; below it, a single ring holds the heart and lets it swing. The chain is rolo, with round links.

Twelve grams forty of silver at nine hundred and twenty-five thousandths — the company states one weight only, without saying how much of it goes to the heart and how much to the chain — for a heart of twenty-seven millimeters by thirty-nine, measured with the bail. The chain is included in the price: silver, forty-three and a half centimeters, named by the company together with the pendant. The enamel, the company says, works on both sides of the heart: it closes the lozenges on one face and on the other, and the piece has no good side and no side to hide. Which enamel it is is stated nowhere, and we do not write it in: the families are different techniques, and they cannot be told apart from a photograph. The color is the fragile part in any case: the pendant comes off before detergents and solvents, and it does not go into the ultrasonic bath. Presentation box included.