Onyx Signet Rings

French antique signet ring. Very unusual signet ring, created in Paris France around the 1880 during the Victorian Era. Crafted with very strong geometric patterns in solid yellow g...

The luxury brand Versace’s signature logo takes center stage on this opulent ring. Crafted from 18K white gold, an onyx center stone provides the perfect backdrop for the brand’s cla...

Cartier Panthere 18K  Gold Panther Design Cocktail Ring from the collection of Cartier Panthere de Cartier. This outstanding example of Car...

Ring centers a bezel set rectangular cushion shaped onyx cabochon with carved intaglio of a dog Opaque and deeply saturated black in color - measuring 15.0 x 20.0 mm With deeply ri...

A unique 18k yellow gold Panthere ring by Cartier. The ring features a Panthere's head with two emeralds set to the eyes and onyx for the nose. The panthere is clutching an 8mm cultu...

Signet style ring centers an oval tablet of banded onyx agate measuring approximately 15.5 x 11.8 mm Onyx agate has an opaque black base with a translucent bluish white top Deeply ...

Signet ring centers an oval tablet of banded onyx agate measuring approximately 14.3 x 10.5 mm Topped by translucent white color while back is opaque black - exhibits an excellent p...

A beautiful 18k tri-colour gold panthere ring by Cartier from the Panthere collection. The ring is composed of a panthere head motif and is complemented with two round emeralds set a...

More than neon, acid wash, or even Memphis style, the most iconic design element of the 1980s has to be the grid. It was in the 1980s that the grid was lifted from the lowly pages of...

A stylish 18k white gold and onyx Bvlgari dress ring from the Bvlgari Bvlgari collection. The ring comprises of a coin style shape with the bvlgari bvlga...

Queen Victoria was famously in love with her husband, Prince Albert. When he died, she entered a period of mourning that lasted for the next forty years, wearing black dresses and black "mourning" jewelry. This might sound horribly depressing to our modern ears but it did not sound horribly depressing to Victorian English ears. In the same way that today, if Kate Middleton wears a specific scarf by a specific designer that specific scarf sells out worldwide in five minutes, so, too, did the citizens of Victorian-era England look to their monarch to set the style tone. Mourning jewelry had existed for hundreds of years. It was worn as a way to remember and honor a loved one who had passed. But mourning jewelry exploded in popularity during Victoria's reign and quite suddenly, necklaces, bracelets, brooches featuring onyx, jet, pearls, dark garnets, old diamonds and gold were all the rage. The ring you see here is an especially elegant example of an English Victorian-era mourning ring. An oval plaque of glossy black onyx serves as the background for a "coach lantern" form created in gold and set with a row of four single-cut diamonds. The diamonds provide a source of illumination for the coach lantern so that it can light your way through the darkness. Surrounding the onyx we find 24 faceted jet stones set into silver atop gold. The 15K yellow gold shank features decorated shoulders and a simple band the rest of the way around. I love mourning jewelry. Not just because through our modern eyes, it's monotone chic; I love mourning jewelry for what it is: a jewel to remember and honor a loved one who has passed. If we're honest, none of us ever "gets over" the loss of a loved one That doesn't happen. What happens is, we continue to move forward through time, through our lives. But the love we felt for that person, our memories of them; these travel with us through life. Mourning jewelry was —and still ought to be— a way of not forgetting. And a way of saying, "don't tell me I should be 'healed' by now." This magnificent antique Victorian mourning ring...

This Georgian-era poison ring from the early 19th century is as cunning as it is beautiful. The shoulders of the 14k-ish yellow gold ring feature a pair of grand Corinthian pilaster...