Fei Liu Smoky Quartz 18 Karat Gold Plated Sterling Silver Jewellery Set

This exquisite jewellery set draws inspiration from the delicate beauty of sweet peas, capturing their elegance in a pair of drop earrings and a matching necklace. Each piece showcas...

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with our Dragon 14ct Gold Earrings, each featuring a black agate disc that serves as the perfect canvas for a stunning Chinese New Year Dragon motif....

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with our Dragon Gold-Plated Sterling Silver Earrings, each featuring a black agate disc that serves as the perfect canvas for a stunning Chinese New ...

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with our Dragon 14ct Gold Pendant and Earring Set, each featuring a black agate disc that serves as the perfect canv...

A fabulous Cartier Suite featuring a Cartier drop necklace and matching earrings set with ceramic, black mother of pearl and Cartier round brilliant cut ...

White South Sea Pearls with Type A Lavender Jadeite and Diamond Jewellery Suite in 18K White Gold. Earring: The Earring consists of 4 Type A...

This is a gorgeous Victorian Bohemian Garnet Parure with a stunning Pendant and pair of Earrings. The garnets sparkle with a brilliant red fire, they ar...

This antique Victorian 15K gold demi-parure comprising pendant earrings and pendant brooch with chain is set with over 10.00 carats of cabochon almandine garnets. The elongated pendant earrings are designed as scrolling leaf motif tops, each with an oval cabochon garnet, flexibly suspending a reverse-tapering drop of floral and foliate form set with pear-shape and oval cabochon garnets, en suite with a conforming pendant brooch and delicate rectangular trace link chain. Still stylish today, the lightly voluminous, repoussé forms have an easy, gentle sway, while their soft bloomed gold and saturated red garnets enliven the eyes and face. Product Details: Item #: STE-20655 Artist: James W. Lyon, Edinburgh Country: Scotland Circa: 1860's Dimensions: Earpendants: 3" length; Pendant Brooch: 2.5" length; Chain: 13.5" length Materials: Cabochon almandine garnet (with approximate total weight 6.10 carats); Cabochon almandine garnet (with approximate total weight 4.05 carats); 15K Gold; fitted original box from James W. Lyon, Edinburgh. Literature: A substantially similar demi-parure in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is pictured in Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria, by Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe, p.17. The image of the demi-parure is accompanied by an image of a lithograph of a young Queen Victoria wearing a substantially similar demi-parure. Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: Queen Victoria, whom the artistic record shows owned a substantially similar demi-paure, was deeply interested in couture and jewelry. Often, she chose to wear jewelry by British makers, in many cases work that was historically inspired and/or sentimental, knowing that her choices were closely observed by the public. These jewels were often relatively modest in value, and accessible to aspiring women of the British middle class. Blood-red cabochon-cut gems have been known throughout history as "carbuncles", and their use in gold jewelry was highly popular in the sentimental, symbolism-loving Victorian period in England. In the 19th century, the new study of of archaeology had revealed that the garnet was a favorite precious stone of the Hellenistic Greeks, who centered carbuncles in wedding jewelry such as gold bracelets and garment appliqués fashioned...