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.
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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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This big beautiful chunk is set with a 3.17ct peachy sapphire and a pair of cushion diamonds, 18K. Carved with Peonies, buds, and feathery leaves.
These fireflies are set with bright fluorescent yellow yttrium aluminum garnets, which are a synthetic material in the garnet group that also glows bright yellow under UV fluorescence. It was really quite perfect for this ring. 14K white gold.
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This Snail+Rabbit portmanteau with a little diamond set in the center of the shell. Is the best! Little oak leaves and acorns carved down the sides, 18K.
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One of a kind Death’s Head Hawkmoth Memento Mori pendant. Set with a carved Tahitian baroque keshi pearl skull mounted in the thorax, a shield-shaped cabochon ruby, and diamonds set in the wings. 18K. The backside is fully carved with the lettering: “Memento Mori, Memento Vivere,” which translates as ‘Remember you must die; therefore, remember to live.’
An example of my new Ginkgo Leaf Solitaire set with a vintage lovely pale champagne Old European Cut diamond. Smaller in size compared to the original stone in my sample photos, at .60ct and about 5.2mm diameter, yet it works incredibly well I think.
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We are all well aware of the classic full moons: Blue moon, Harvest moon, Blood moon, Super moon… Lesser known, but no less important is the illusive Champagne moon. Whereupon glasses of golden champagne are sipped while sitting on the back porch watching the bats dance about.
Bats flying around a smoky champagne moon was pretty much the perfect motif to carve for this unusual diamond and I love how it turned out. 18K with a groovy 2.27ct diamond.
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