May we see with new eyes, each old thing, each known thing.
To have & to hold
August 19, 2017 Gem Gardener
A pair of birds perched above a heart, where all details are from light etchings, a technique typical of Straits Chinese jewellery from this region.
Nothing Without You
August 17, 2017 SIJS
I discovered our natural world late. Perhaps there is never a right time, but how it would comfort me, and I knowing it had my back, would see through another lens other than humanly possible. The rhetoric is old fashioned, but how it would comfort mere humans, if only we knew. Practical/natural knowledge obfuscated as …
Clover & Juniper
August 7, 2017 Gem Gardener
Early 1900s Straits Chinese pendant set with four jadeite teardrops in 20k gold.
This is one of the older jade pendants old enough to not be old fashioned, if this makes sense. It is a filigree pendant very similar to Victorian and later Art Nouveau pendants and lavaliers. The jade itself is arranged in a stylised clover.
Two (more) sides if we know it
August 5, 2017 Gem Gardener
Jade is only as old fashioned or classic as you are. Choose.
But maybe you don’t have to, and that could be the way with jade.
Spinel, the original Balas Ruby
August 5, 2017 SIJS
The spinel is a connoisseur’s stone. But with a color like that, it’s only a matter of time. Do you know the difference between rubies and spinels is only a matter of some arbitration? The spinel could have been the stone of choice, not the ruby. It is a ‘random’ choice between what is essentially …
Texture of a rare turquoise
August 5, 2017 SIJS
A little sculpture of our bigger world at the finger. Details