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Posted 11 months ago
Kitty
(23 items)
I love Victorian Mourning Jewelry and this is a fabulous example from my past collection.
The highly evocative imagery with a heartwrenching mourning symbolism is that of a Sickle cutting down an English Rose.
This is the only locket I ever saw with this iconography and a wonderful rare example of Victorian Mourning Jewelry.
It is easy to imagine the meaning behind the image and to guess that this pretty locket was commissioned in memory of some young English Rose who had been struck down by the grim reaper and missed deeply.
Hope you enjoy taking a look : )
NB this is part of my past jewelry collection and is not available for sale.
Mourning JewelryMourning jewelry has been around since at least the 16th century, but it is…
Victorian and Edwardian JewelryThe Victorian Era spanned Queen Victoria's rule of England from 1837 until …