June Jewel of the Month

18k French-Victorian Art Nouveau Necklace

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The necklace is covered with the plant, IVY. The meanings of flowers in jewelry were symbolic and also deeply personal. Antique jewelry may have intimate and sexually explicit meanings.

Read about the sexuality of wedding rings here! Jewelry echoed nature and was a forest in which flowers bloomed and was saturated with deeper meanings.

June jewel of the Month is a supreme example of flowers and deeper meanings incorporated into jewelry in this late 19th century, 18k French Ivy & Tendril necklace. Do you know what the meaning of the flower- ivy meant to a lady living in the Late Victorian and Art Nouveua era?

The ivy and it's tendrils attach to a wall, in a way which can best be described as - rather affectionately.

In France where this necklace originates, one would give a piece of jewelry with ivy depicted on it while saying "Je m'attache ou je meurs" which translates - "I will cling to you or I will die"...

The hidden meaning of flowers which was captured so beautifully in Antique Jewelry is what we love so much about our antique jewels. The intimacy, spoken in the language of flowers can communicated by the bestower to the bestowed.