a-l-ancien-regime:

Sun and moon horizontal dial for latitudes 46°-50° North. The silvered compass at the centre has the cardinal points named in Latin and an arrow drawn on the compass bowl to indicate the magnetic variation at 10° West of North.  The upper section is marked with a scale of latitudes.  The base of the compass is engraved with tables of latitudes for different towns and cities around Europe . {early 18th century}

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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ornamentedbeing:

Marjorie Merriweather Post’s lavish platinum brooch from the 1920s, featuring a spectacular 60-carat carved Mughal emerald surrounded by diamonds. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

ornamentedbeing:

 Edwardian platinum, diamond, and sapphire necklace

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a-l-ancien-regime:

Snuffbox
Chrysoprase, diamonds, rubies, gold
Berlin,The design is probably by Jean Guillaume George Kruger, a London-trained designer who moved to Berlin in 1753 and designed a series of snuffboxes in the Prussian royal collection. This particular box dates from around 1755.

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ópalo

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¡El cabello de Poe! :O

tamburina:

This is a brooch containing a lock of Edgar Allan Poe’s hair. It was given to Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, who was Poe’s adolescent sweetheart and became engaged to him shortly before his death in 1849.

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ornamentedbeing:

Amethyst Crown 1400’s

This is interesting because Amethyst is my birthstone: 

“The February born shall find sincerity and peace of mind, freedom from passion and from care, if they, the amethyst will wear.”

Amethyst is associated - stability, peace, balance, courage, inner strength, sincerity and a calm disposition. 

ornamentedbeing:

hinged bracelets or armlets

Gold, carnelian, and glass 
Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose lll 
ca. 1479-1425 B.C. 
From the tomb of the three minor wives of Thutmose lll in the 
Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes

This funerary equipment belonged to three foreign (Semitic) wives of Thutmose lll, Maruta, Manhata, and Manuwai. Maruta may, in fact, be the hieroglyphic version of the familiar Hebrew name Marta. The jewelry was discovered, together with vessels and other objects, in a rock-cut cave situated high up in the desert mountain cliffs of the Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud in western Thebes.

These hinged ornaments are made of burnished gold inlaid with carnelian and glass. Each is inscribed on the inner surface with cartouches and epithets of Thutmose lll. They were worn on the wrist or upper arm with the king’s name close to the woman’s skin.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 
NYC

ornamentedbeing:

Victoria’s wedding dress was decorated with hand made lace and adorned with a sapphire and diamond brooch, presented to her by Albert, the day before their wedding.

Ése zafiro es una lin-du-ra.

ornamentedbeing:

Queen Victoria’s Wedding Tiara

I couldn’t help but notice that this must have been her something blue!

*gasps* qué chulada de piedras azules…

life:

What is it that separates the world’s royals from us mere mortals? Is it the money? The palaces? That whole divine right of kings thing? Nah, it’s the crowns and tiaras, obviously. Like this, the diamonds-and-silver tiara that Queen Elizabeth II got on her wedding day in 1947. Sure beats another toaster, eh?

Royal Crowns & Tiaras

¡Plata! me hacen feliz con la plata. La prefiero antes que el oro ^_^

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ornamentedbeing:

“I beg you will limit yourself to this ornament, even of which your charms have no need. This present should please you the more that it has not increased my expenditure since it is composed of diamonds I possessed when I was a dauphin.”

Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette. In effort to curb her taste in wearing such tall plumes in her hair he offered her a diamond aigrette to wear instead.

Es la cosa más bella que he visto con diamantes y piedras preciosas :O
condenada Maria Antonieta tan suertuda…

ornamentedbeing:

This is the last English crown I will be posting until Friday in which I will spam you all within an inch of your lives with my Royal Post. 

I’ve been planning it for a while and it’s promising to be beautiful.

Made for Florence, the wife of the second Baron Poltimore, treasurer to Queen Victoria’s household 1872-1874. Later owned by HRH Princess Margaret.

Tengo una fascinación por las tiaras. Son tan imposibles de obtener, por éso me fascinan. 

fuckyeah-arthistory:

Blue Serpent Clock Egg - work master Mikhail Perkhin under Fabergé, 1887.

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alanrickmanismysugardaddy:

veggiehugger:

This is amazing. 

 Wow, that’s beautiful.

Divino :) 

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