Locket Two-color gold, rubies, emeralds, garnets, amethysts, diamonds and turquoise. The Victoria & Albert Museum |
I have a special fondness for Victorian (and earlier) jewelry in general, but I’m always tickled by those British pieces which adhere to the "language of stones.” This concept allowed a sentimental message to be conveyed using the initial letter of each stone in the design to spell out a word or phrase.
Here, for example, the stones adorning this heart-shaped locket spell "Regard.” Ruby, Emerald, Garnet, Amethyst, Ruby, Diamond. The stones are set in two-color gold around a “forget-me-not” of five turquoises centered by a ruby.
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