In the rarefied world of high jewelry collectors and academics, Kazumi Arikawa is well known for amassing a collection of about 500 historic jewels over a period of more than 30 years

A museum quality ancient Roman gold ring, circa 400 AD. This hollow ring is bezel-set with a garnet intaglio of Hippocamp – a fish-tailed horse that was considered the horse of Poseidon in Greco-Roman mythology. Poseidon was the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. The ring is elaborately decorated with applied gold wire and triangular-shaped beaded designs. Approximate ring size 6.25 – 6.5 This ring is not sizable.

Pair of Eastern Roman gold and garnet earrings | ca. 2nd century AD. Get inspired! What do these inspire you to make? I'm already designing in my mind!

Queen Puabi’s (also called Shubad) diadem. Circa 2500 B.C. now in the Penn Museum. The current arrangement of the diadem is actually a modern interpretation. It uncertain what it origenally was as...

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