Catchall: stuff i'm collecting

i am studying to be a jeweler. ideas are easy, fabrication is hard, working with metal and stones is bliss. here i collect my inspirations and motivations. welcome!

[ancientpeoples]

Finger ring

1st Century AD

Roman

(Source: The British Museum)

[fyeahindigenousfashion]

bracelet, Charles Loloma (Hopi)

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[lessdanthree]

stop i can only get so hard

[ufansius]

The Crown of Otto III (980-1002), King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor.

[ancientpeoples]

Golden earrings with stones and glass

These earrings shows the Egyptian Atef crown and underneath a heart shaped pendant. They are 1.6 by 7 cm big. 

Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd or 2nd century BC. 

Source: Metropolitan Museum

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Fairy Throne

Cedric Laquieze

[scienceisbeauty]

Luminous fungi Mycena chlorophos.

(via)

[kriemhildsrevenge]

Brooch, “Kul Oba”, Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons (ca. 1875)

Large gold pendant brooch with circular top, arched section below from which hang 11 vase-shaped pendants. Fine gold granulation work throughout. The design of this brooch, like some other pieces made by the Castellanis, is based closely on jewelry unearthed at an important archeological site at Kol Oba in Southern Russia, discovered in 1830. Drawings of the jewels, which date from the 4th century BCE, were published after their transferral to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

via Cooper-Hewitt

[ancientpeoples]

Mosaic Pavement

c. AD 200

Roman

(Source: The British Museum)

[fleurdulys]

Wood Nymphs in the Moonlight - Julius Schmid

~1900

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yoo ji hyun and moon ju yeon for rocket x lunch.

[omgthatdress]

Brooch

late 19th century

Sotheby’s

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[aleyma]

Lulua culture of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Figure of a Mother Holding a Child, 19th century (source).

[fleurdulys]

Floating Nude - Xi Pan

2008

[unconventionaljewelry-deactivat]

[grandmarie]

Erik Kollin, Finnish workmaster for Fabergé (RU), First Imperial Easter Egg, known as “Hen Egg”, it was made and delivered to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, in 1885. Crafted from gold, and an opaque white enamelled ‘shell’ opening to reveal its first surprise, a matt yellow gold yolk. A thin band of gold where the two halves of the shell are joined is visible around the middle of the egg. The two halves open to reveal a gold yolk with a matte finish, containing a varicolored gold hen with ruby eyes. | ©Photo: Fabergé

[thecolorblockcurator]

Monna Pomona, Dante Gabriel Rossetti