Renaissance Jewelry

A fine and impressive antique 18 karat yellow gold intaglio signet ring; part our gent's jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This fine and impressive antique men's signet ring has been crafted in 18k yellow gold. The circular face of this armigerous signet ring is embellished with a chased decorated seal matrix...

Pinky Signet Ring - 14K Gold Pinky Pentagon Signet Ring - Small Pentagonal Ring - Signet Ring For Women created by hands from ring to the stone shapes. G...

Yellow gold Signet ring, engraved with a coat of arms decorated with three sections. Ring size: 7 Weight: 9.1g.

Clarity: VS Metal: White Gold Main Stone: Yellow Diamond 0.58ctw Side Stone Weight: Diamonds 0.43ctw Total Diamond Carat Weight: 1.1ctw

Tapered diamond sets on 18k solid yellow gold. Metal: Solid 18 karat yellow gold Cut: Brilliant round Stone: Natural diamond Stone Size: 2mm diamond Diamond Color and Clarity: G+, V...

18 Karat Yellow Solid Gold Leo Lion Head Signet Ring, Tiffany designer, Thomas Kurilla created this for a custom order. The king of the jungle, fearless , dominating, and territorial. They will fight to their death. A solid 18 Karat Yellow Gold Leo Lion Ring...

Yellow gold ring, decorated with an intaglio engraved with a coat of arms on carnelian. Ring size: 7 Weight : 5,1gr.

The Malachite Room of the Winter Palace, designed in the late 1830s by Alexander Briullov, served as a drawing room for the Empress Alexandra Fyodoro...

Pinky Signet Ring - 14K Gold Pinky Hexagon Signet Ring - Small Hexagonal Ring created by hands from ring to the stone shapes. Good ideas of dainty ring or stackable ring gift for her...

When you just need a little something sweet, our Bonbon Necklace is just the thing. Here, with yellow citrine. Plays well alone or with others. 18" chain with additional clasp optio...

Faye Kim's interpretation of the classic signet ring in 18k matte gold is modern and fresh. This simple and elegant free-form signet ring with a hinged shank is a standout design...

18ct gold & silver set Art Nouveau Diamond Opal Pendant/Brooch dated circa 1900 Five round opals with an articulated pear shaped opal drop, very well matched with lively play of colours and iridescence in reds, greens, blues and gold. Set in 18 carat yellow gold claw collets Two main transitional cut (old mine) diamonds 0.70ct. Mix of old mine and rose cut diamonds in an 18 carat yellow gold with “silver Set” channel setting , approx 1 ct total. G/H/I, VS2-SI2. Total diamond weight: approx 1.7carats Setting diamonds in gold with a thin layer of silver, “silver set”, was a technique used in the Georgian/Victorian/Art Nouveau period as white coloured gold and platinum were not yet available. A very thin layer of silver was applied to the gold, on which the diamonds were set, to show them off to their best advantage (as the yellow would reflect and distort the white colour of the diamonds). The Art Nouveau period was a short lived but worldwide movement which reached its peak at the end of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th Century. It had its roots in the Pre Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain in the 1860’s. Artists, such as William Morris, took their inspiration from the flora and fauna of nature and rejected the mass industrialisation and mechanisation of the Victorian age. Art Nouveau continued with this theme and has a distinctive appearance with soft, curved shapes and lines and often depicted natural designs such as flowers, birds and the female form. Before the Art Nouveau period, the emphasis had been to design pieces with an emphasis on gem stones, diamonds, rubies emeralds etc. However, during the Art Nouveau period, jewellers adopted the idea of using other semi–precious stones “from nature” such as agate, garnet opal, moonstone, aquamarine and experimented with a wide variety of new techniques e.g. enamelling. The “New Art” style became a worldwide movement encompassing all disciplines of the arts, and world class artists as far afield as Gaudi with his “modernisme” architecture in Spain, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York with objects, Galle Glass in France and the Liberty & Co Archibald Knox designs in Britain, Jugendstil in Northern Europe and Faberge in Russia. The movement flared brightly but briefly and by 1910 it was already going out of style to be replaced by Art Deco. In fitted period box. Detachable 18ct brooch...