Onyx Bar Double Claw Pendant Necklace

Vintage-inspired Round Onyx Bar Double Bird Claw Pendant Necklace This rod shaped pendant is fashioned from onyx, an opaque black stone popular in the last 200 years for use in both men's and women's jewelry.  The rod is clasped between a pair of bird claws, inspired by a 19th century men's stick pin in our personal collection, and which we cast in both recycled sterling and gold. Claws are a strong symbol of power borrowed from nature. They were--and are again-- popular motifs originally seen in volume in interior designs in the 18th century which was heavily inspired by the then fad for Chinoiserie.  Imported Chinese furniture designs, whose legs were often dragons holding pearls, were absorbed into the era's zeitgeist and morphed into Rococo Dutch furniture designs featuring claws clasping balls...these were so admired that they were later adapted in the 19th century for use in claw-foot tubs, sugar tongs, and decorative accessories such as lapel pins and men's watch fobs. An inter