Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 costume from furniture and architecture to

from furniture and architecture to gems and art

In the 19th Century

this classic is a go-with-anything staple of any well-dressed woman's jewelry wardrobe

shifting hues of an opal sea

from horseshoe for luck to hearts and birds for love

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 costume from furniture and architecture toThere is a moment, quiet, breath held, electric, when a question asked in love meets its answer. I imagine this ring at the center of such a moment in Edwardian England: a winter afternoon, pale sunlight filtering through mullioned windows, a young woman turning toward the man she has waited for a moment longer than propriety would admit. He offers her a small leather box; inside, this extraordinary cluster of fire and lightsimple in form,