Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Scrimshaw Double Heart Mourning Pendant

Scrimshaw double heart mourning pendant, 1807

“Beauty and youth in vain to these you trust
For youth and beauty shall be laid in dust.“

This quote is so true. Growing old gracefully rather than trying to turn back the clock is quite a challenge at times. 

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Antique Pendant with Blue Bird

I am not much of a jewelry person but I would happily wear this little beauty on a gold chain. I wonder if it's engraved on the back? via

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Mozart Locket Sold at Sothebys

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
LOCK OF THE COMPOSER'S FAIR HAIR, CONTAINED IN A 19th CENTURY GILT LOCKET, WITH A 19th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT NOTE OF PROVENANCE. SOLD. 35,000 GBP 
See auction post here, scroll down for description.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Love the Ruff

This is such a gorgeous detail of a painting. Love the ruff and the earrings. The quilted fabric too. via

Saturday, April 13, 2013

My Favorite Necklace


This is practically the only jewelry I ever wear other than my pearl earrings. The necklace seems perfect with everything. It was a thrift shop find purchased years ago and it remains my favorite. 
my iPhone photo

Friday, February 1, 2013

Carpenter Gothic Cottage - Artist's Studio


This small 19th-century white clapboard house in Bangall, NY doesn’t look like a workplace, but the jewelry designer Gabriella Kiss’s studio is located inside. You are in for a real treat. There is a wonderful slideshow of the inside compliments of The New York Times. via

Monday, January 21, 2013

L'Odyssée de Cartier

This is the most amazing commercial I've ever seen.



Click here if you can't see it. I promise you will be blown away!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Cartier’s 100th Anniversary in America, a Sparkling Collection Goes on Show . . .

Dazzling Menagerie of antique animal, reptile, and insect jewels by Cartier.


















Read the entire article that appeared in May 2009 Architectural Digest.

Thanks for stopping by the cottage to view some amazing jewelry. ♥Rosemary



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