Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver Chalcedony Figural Ring c.1910 turtles 5 mm in width

5 mm in width

This extraordinary diamond heart feels very much like that

Either way this pedant is so marvelous and so well finished on both sides that you could be tempted to flip the bale and wear it plain side forward

the gentle sway of the twin drops

It showcases the whiplash lines and curves that are the staple of the Nouveau style

Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver Chalcedony Figural Ring c.1910 turtles 5 mm in widthThere is something wonderfully mysterious about this ring, as though it once belonged to a woman who boarded trains alone beneath clouds of steam and carried letters tied with ribbon in the bottom of a leather valise. The pale blue grey chalcedony glows like moonlight through fog on the Danube, cool and soft and dreamlike against the richly sculpted silver mounting. Around the stone, the silver seems almost alive, flowing and organic, shaped into