{"product_id":"twilight-pendant-sterling-silver-art-nouveau-armand-bargas-female-figure-bats-and-star-dusk-medallion","title":"Twilight Pendant, Sterling Silver, Art Nouveau, Armand Bargas, Female Figure, Bats and Star, Dusk Medallion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis design captures a single moment: the time after the sun drops below the horizon and before the sky goes fully dark. The French call it crépuscule, but English has twilight, dusk, and gloaming. Language is unusually rich in words for this particular time, as though it's always been understood that something significant happens there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman stands at that threshold, eyes lowered, as if unwinding herself just as the day has. One star hangs above her while another twinkles at her ear. Behind her the horizon has gone quiet, the last of the light flattened. And at upper left, three bats have entered the composition. Not as omens or as gothic decoration, but as the creatures that emerge at this hour, when the light is exactly this transitional quality. In Art Nouveau and in the natural world bats are creatures of the threshold, witnesses to the changes occurring. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove the woman's head is inscribed \"Crepuscule\" and the artist's signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraver, Armand Bargas, was born in Paris in 1854 and spent his career as an engraver of medals and decorative metalwork, working in the tradition that made French Art Nouveau the dominant decorative style of its era. He died in 1921 which means his productive years ran almost exactly parallel to the movement itself, from its emergence in the 1880s through its peak and into its decline after the First World War. His work appears on medals, plaques, and buttons of the period, and his signature on a piece is a mark of authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece is dated to the Art Nouveau period, 1890 to 1910, and it carries the full ambition of that moment: organic in outline, dense with meaning, made at a scale that requires focus to appreciate the details, but fully rewards the attention given.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the third pendant in a series of four. Aurore, Jour, and Nuit are each listed separately in the shop. A collector who owns all four holds the full wheel of hours — dawn, day, twilight, night — each one a different quality of light, a different quality of being. The other pendants are listed separately (see below). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCast sterling silver, hallmarked Blue Piranha and .925. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pendant measures 1½ inches, or 3.8 cm, long and just under 1¼ inches, or 3.2 cm, wide, including the bail — about the size of a U.S. half dollar. Weight is 15 grams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach pendant is available without a chain, so you may use your own if you prefer. If you want to add a chain, I offer different lengths and styles. Every chain comes with a 2-inch extender, so you can vary the length. Please choose your chain from the options at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour purchase arrives gift boxed, presented in a soft pouch with a story card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood for: a summer solstice gift for the person who loves the longest evening of the year, standing outside at dusk and feeling something shift. The one who has always belonged to the in-between hours and finds more truth in thresholds than in certainties. The art nouveau lover who wants provenance as well as aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions? Please message me. I'm happy to help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAurore\/Dawn: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJour\/Day: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNuit\/Night: out of stock\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Piranha Jewelry","offers":[{"title":"pendant","offer_id":53632764969274,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"add popcorn chain 16\" [+$40]","offer_id":53632765002042,"sku":null,"price":265.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"add popcorn chain 18\"  [+$45]","offer_id":53632765034810,"sku":null,"price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"add wheat chain 16\"  [+$65]","offer_id":53632765067578,"sku":null,"price":290.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"add wheat chain 18\"  [+$70]","offer_id":53632765100346,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"add rope chain 30\"  [+$90]","offer_id":53632765133114,"sku":null,"price":315.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3822\/7514\/files\/bargascrepuscule01-21.jpg?v=1781983781","url":"https:\/\/bluepiranhajewelry.com\/products\/twilight-pendant-sterling-silver-art-nouveau-armand-bargas-female-figure-bats-and-star-dusk-medallion","provider":"Blue Piranha Jewelry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}