Ring designed with portraits of the client’s two Icelandic horses, and set with a beautiful peachy Imperial topaz. 14K yellow gold.
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Carnations Solitaire with Ruby
Cabochon Ruby solitaire with a carnation flower motif and openwork. This ring turned out so nicely! I was so happy with it.
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Custom-designed pendant around this gorgeous green-yellow custom-cut Mali garnet (cut by Geologic Spectrum). Surrounded by a gradient of garnets from deep orange and lighter yellow-orange Spessartite, yellow-green andradite, light and deep green Tsavorite. 19K. The backside has carved peacock feather detail.
Amphisbaena Solitaires
A few recent modifications of my Amphisbaena Solitaire to add to the family. The above in 18K with a gorgeous swirly black opal from Australia. The below with a heart diamond and crown, set with birthstones. Click through for more photos of each.
Lotus Flower Pendant
This awesome lotus pendant! Heavily three-dimensional, and set with a ~10mm emerald in the center. 19K rose gold.
This was a very challenging piece to carve, but it turned out so nicely! I really like the color contrast between the emerald and the rose gold.
Continue readingOwl pendant #2
Often one design I make inspires more similar pieces. Such is the case for this new iteration on the classic owl face pendant. Diamond eyes, and this time, the entire backside of the piece is carved with a feathery motif. 14K, diamonds.
Year of the Snake
This is a Year of the Snake brooch that I carved for a jeweler in Melbourne, Australia. I can’t wait to see how the finished turned out.
Continue readingMemento Mori Enamel pendants
These hand-painted memento mori enamels are just about the greatest thing! I cannot tell you how much I love these, and how stoked I was to get to make a pendant-bezel design for them. After much agonizing, we selected four of them (to start…) 18K
These enamels were painted by Olga Doutkevitch.
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Signet ring carved with a Mockingbird. Set with a blue zircon, and three sweet little antique diamonds from her grandmother’s old ring. I really like this riff off the classic signet style with a sunken light relief carving rather than an intaglio or engraved seal.
Continue readingDeath’s Head Hawkmoth Memento Mori #2
Another take on the Death’s Head Hawkmoth Memento Mori theme. This time featuring a wonderful enamel by Olga Doutkevitch, plus a red coral heart and a pair of diamonds in the wingtips. 18K. And of course just a little bit of detail on the backside..
The backside has the lettering: “Memento Mori, Memento Vivere,” which translates as ‘Remember you must die; therefore, remember to live.’
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