C1880 15K Carnelian Orange Red Portrait Swivel Ring

The Chi-Rho symbol, one of the earliest forms of the Christogram or monogram of Christ, dates to the early days of Christianity. It is formed by superimposing 2 Greek letters, chi (X...

Lovely carved bracelet of polished jet. Jet is a form of fossilized coal that was discovered in the town of Whitby, England in the late 18th century. This discovery gave rise to a cottage industry that employed many in the town of Whitby in the 19th century. Jet formed the material for lightweight, striking, black jewelry forms which were perfect to meet the unending demand for mourning jewelry during the Victorian era. Queen Victoria's long, extended period of mourning for her late husband Albert inspired the demand. Men and women both were active in the production of Jet jewelry...

Fifteen carat double sided Victorian locket ready for your favorite two photographs. This double sided chased 15K locket can be worn with the belt buckle m...

Lava cameo brooch of Demeter, or Ceres in Latin (as she was known to the Romans) with a crown of wheat sheaves in her hair. The gold openwork bezel is of 12K and is an unusual pointe...

This two-color gold articulated hinged bracelet is capped with lantern finials and a 2 color gold pansy with leaves springing forth in between the finia...

Delicate and ephemeral late Georgian necklace woven from gold to create a light transparent woven gold jewel. Such necklaces often took the goldsmith weeks to make, and were entirel...

The banded agate in this 15k gold Victorian signet ring was left uncarved—allowing the agate’s beauty to be the centerpiece of the ring. The surface layer of the stone is a lavender ...

Originally a Victorian era fob converted in antiquity to a ring modeled in 15k gold, a luminous white chalcedony intaglio displays a finely hand-engraved seal filled with captivating...

This rare Egyptian carved carnelian frog amulet dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom, circa 1300 BC. Frog amulets, depicting the goddess Heket, were commonly worn by both the living as a fertility charm and the dead to provide rejuvenation and a long afterlife. The ancient amulet is pierced horizontally and set into a later gold swivel mount, probably dating from the late 19th century. The design of the gold mount inspired by rings worn by the ancient Egyptians and Etruscans with its swivel bezel and coiled wire on the shoulders. The immense number of offspring made the frog an important symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt, and carved frog amulets were worn by women hoping for an easy delivery. This is exemplified with the goddess and protector of birth, Keket, who was depicted as a frog. After death, frog amulets would be placed within the wrappings of mummies, both men and women, in hope of a successful rebirth in the afterlife. The association between this amphibian and rebirth may have been induced by the fact that every year, millions of frogs spontaneously appeared out of the river mud and filled the fields after the annual inundation of the Nile. This caused the Egyptians to believe that they spontaneously generated themselves out of the river mud. The influence of frogs in Ancient Egypt can be seen in the language, the hieroglyphic sign for "one hundred thousand" was a tadpole, and one of the Egyptian terms denoting "frogs" is whm-anx, meaning literally "they who repeat life." Similar examples of ancient Egyptian carved...

Exceptionally rare and fashioned in the 2nd or 3rd century CE, the carved carnelian gemstone at the center of this ring hails from the Roman Empire. Displaying a rich red color and carved with the image of two Roman deities with a child, the creation exudes the glory of late antiquity. Each taking a classical contrapposto stance, the leftmost god appears crowned with laurels and grasping a staff, while the other appears nude. At their feet, an infant stretches his arms upward toward the divine figures. The crimson carnelian, more than a millennia-old, is set into a later 14K gold ring setting...

A Georgian carnelian intaglio ring, the oval carnelian measuring 20 x 17mm, seal engraved with the head of Zeus Ammon, depicted in profile with ram’s horn, ...

Signet Intaglio Ring featuring Carnelian (type of Agate) stone with the detailed heraldic depiction of Von Boltenstern's coat of arms under the crown of Nobility set into wide band r...