I’ve received, as a Christmas present from Justin this year, another beautiful specimen to add to my Scandinavian jewellery collection. It’s entitled, ‘Snow Crystal’, and was designed by Unn Tangerud. It can be seen (second row, on the right) in the montage of images above.
Unn Tangerud (b. 1933) spent many years working for Uni David-Andersen, the 4th generation of the David-Andersen jewellery-making family. It was in 1964, while she was working for David-Andersen, that she designed Snow Crystal part of the company’s Troll Series. Also in this series, she designed Unn’s Sun Chariot (second row from the bottom, both left & right).
She worked primarily in silver and bronze using semi-precious stones such as tiger’s eye, amazonite and mylonite. The beautiful mottled pink cabochon stone in my pendant is thulite. The stone was first discovered in 1820 in Sauland, a village in Telemark, Norway. It’s only found in a handful of other locations in the world.
There are a few examples of her jewellery for sale online; check Etsy and eBay.
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