Earrings of yellow gold with enameled flames. One of a kind.
Enameled rose gold bird pendant with ruby cabochons. One of a kind.
Earrings with yellow gold casts of the chrysalis of a peacock butterfly (Aglais io) acquired using a 3D scanner that allowed the butterfly to emerge two days later unscathed from this procedure. The already recognizable outline of wings, head and antennae are accentuated with strokes of black enamel. The chrysalises hang from diamond-set white gold nature casts of vine tendrils.
Long necklace with a pair of pendants in the shape of flower-filled cornucopia (nature casts of paper nautilus Argonauta hians and flowers of Indian pokeweed Phytolacca acinosa) inhabited by hyacinth macaws. The macaws’ engraved plumage is covered with translucent blue enamel; the beaks and the eye pupils are enameled black. One of a kind.
Amulet with an albatross, who stands watch over a shark tooth seated on a diamond-set and enameled pedestal. The tooth and pedestal are encased in an engraved rock crystal tube, which is framed by a garland of shells and tentacles at the top, and a trio of sardines at the bottom. Except for the albatross’ beak, which carries an articulated diamond-set loop, the head is covered with white vitreous enamel and embellished with painted gold ornaments, whose pattern is reminiscent of the captured tooth. The eyes are enameled black and accentuated with a yellow gold contour. One of a kind.
Amulet with a griffon vulture with a neck ruff of engraved agate feathers who stands guard over an amethyst scepter quartz. One of a kind.
Amulet with a cluster of five long prism rock crystals with phantom amethysts inside. Typical for this find from Guerrero, Mexico, the crystals’ color gradually changes from dark-purple base to a fully colorless tip. The cap is engraved and enameled black. The head of an eagle with engraved feathers holds the suspension loop in its beak.
Amulet with a griffon vulture who plunges into a rock crystal tube to capture an emerald. The vulture’s neck has a garland of engraved agate feathers. One of a kind.
Earrings with Vultus Trifrons of three abstract raven faces fused into one head. Their eyes are rose-cut diamonds, their beaks hold yellow gold beads, from which briolette-cut diamonds are suspended. A diamond-set articulated helix coils from their center. One of a kind.
Earrings with vultus trifrons of three abstract raven faces that bore their way into each other. Large rose-cut diamonds are their eyes, and each beak grasps a red enameled prey. Beneath each vultus trifrons, three briolette-cut diamonds encircle an irregularly cut spinel bead.
Pendant with a rock crystal radiating blood-red limonite inclusions from its core (Brandberg Massif, Namibia). Seated on the crystal is a Maya-inspired diamond- and ruby-set structure of blackened white gold that ends in a crocodile head. The crocodile’s scales of partially oxidized yellow gold are accentuated with black vitreous enamel, with teeth of white gold, and rock crystal eyes underlaid with green enamel. The suspension loop is the crocodile’s prey, a gold-painted bird of blackened white gold. one of a kind
Earrings with nature casts of wings of a giant Malaysian grasshopper Macrolyristes corporalis. The wings are embellished with green vitreous enamel, backless plique-à-jour enamel in light pink, and—on the reverse—painted gold. The lentil-shaped articulated suspension element is set with green tsavorites, and yellow and light brown diamonds.
Earrings with nature cast of wings of a South American grasshopper Tropidacris collaris. Each earring features a pair of wings that slightly flutter in the wind and are painted with vitreous enamel in accordance to the grasshopper’s true coloration. The forewings show the oxidized white gold surface underneath painted gold spots, and the hindwings are covered with violet and black enamel, and painted gold ornaments.
Earrings with nature cast of wings of a South American grasshopper Tropidacris collaris. The wings are covered with turquoise green and black vitreous enamel, painted black enamel, and painted gold ornaments.
Hoop earrings with enameled calligraphic ornaments inspired by suture patterns found in ammonites.
Earrings featuring white gold casts of the wings of the Malaysian leaf grasshopper Macrolyristes corporalis. The wings are adorned with cobalt blue vitreous enamel and painted gold ornamentation, covered with a network of white gold wing veins. The multi-axial movable white gold suspension is set with a micro-pavé of diamonds.