Visconti Forbidden City Black and Sterling Fountain Pen
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Forbidden City Black & Sterling Fountain Pen |
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| Color | Black |
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| Type | Fountain and Rollerball |
| Size | Nib Size 18kt Gold ,Trims in 18 Kt. gold, miniatures in 18 Kt. gold , and 261 white diamonds |
| Material | Black Resin |
| Price | 72,500 Dollars |
| Buy It | Click Here |
Pen Details
The "Forbidden City" is for us Westerners the symbol of Chinese culture. Its group of palaces, their sometimes incomprehensible symbolism, their halo of secrecy and inaccessibility evoke a sense of respect, deference and admiration. Another feeling is the one of magnificence, recalled by the thousand year old culture that generated through the centuries an ancestral wisdom and a deep, eternal knowledge. Imagine some old wise men, who transmit an earthly but inaccessible culture: godless priests, whose wisdom comes from experience. The most difficult task for us was to evoke this incredibly complex reality through a single pen. In fact we have spent almost seven years to complete this project. The researches, the study of the symbols and of the roots of this culture have left a very deep trace in our souls. Now we are richer because we are wiser. We have represented the Forbidden City inside a cage, a symbol for the sense of isolation and interdiction, which has been connected to this place to this day. Through the cage we can see the gods: the dragon, the phoenix, the lion etc. They faithfully correspond to the real ones in the existent Forbidden City, and are realized with the technique of lost wax. The cage and the miniatures cover a finely engraved base with a typically oriental overlay, on which we can recognize the classic decoration of the Forbidden City. Inside this decorative section we find a functional part, created to screw/unscrew the cap and to support the whole structure. The dragon represents the Emperor and it is the focus of the whole “Forbidden City”. You can perceive it from the blind cap: there is a real dragon inside this pen, an almost inaccessible one! It is also the part that makes the filling of the pen possible: its soul and its essence!
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Limited Edition to 38 Pens
- Decorations Trims in 18 Kt. gold, miniatures in 18 Kt. gold (lost wax), and 261 white diamonds
- Filling System Power Filler
- Nib 18 Kt. Gold
- Materials Black Resin
- Other Models Gold, Silver
