Herbarium No.
PFA 138.1
Scientific Name
BELLIS PERENNIS
Common Name
Daisy, Marguarite
Type
Earrings
Place
Made in Belgium
Date
Approximately 1890
Collected by
Unknown
Material
750/1000 rosegold 18 ct, rose cut diamonds
Size
22,5 x 11 mm
Total Weight
3,42 grams
Condition
Good
Price
Sold
Daisies are the symbol of innocence in the Language of Flowers.
The daisy owes its name to a corruption of “day’s eye”, which refers the flower opening itself at dawn, and closing at dusk.
“The Legend of Good Women”, written by no less than Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of a.o. the famous Canterbury Tales is precluded by a laud on the modest meadow-bloom:
“The Legend of Good Women”, written by no less than Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of a.o. the famous Canterbury Tales is precluded by a laud on the modest meadow-bloom:
Of all the floures in the mede,
Than love I most these floures white and rede,
Soch that men callen daisies in our town;
To hem I have so great affection,
As I said erst, when comen is the May,
That in my bedde there daweth me no day
That I nam 1 up and walking in the mede,
To seene this flour ayenst the Sunne sprede,
Whan it up riseth early by the morrow.
That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow,
So glad am I, whan that I have the presence
Of it, to done it all reverence,
And ever I love it, and ever ylike newe,
And ever shall, till that mine herte die
All swere I not, of this I will not lie.
The third foto is a detail from a 1960’s Herbarium specimen in the University of Wisconsin.