Georgian Grand Tour Coral Necklace guard chain and the central cushion shaped

and the central cushion shaped stone set in a cut down "pie crust" mount

The butterfly was often used by the Victorians to represent the soul

Modelled in 18k white gold throughout

This is how it’s done

Georgian Grand Tour Coral Necklace guard chain and the central cushion shapedDATE: Georgian, c. 1810 Incredible Georgian necklace hand carved orange coral beads of varying sizes and shapes. Of particular interest are the weird sort of pulley shaped ones paired together I have it on good authority (@ericaweiner) that these odd double ended shapes (there's presumably a name for them, but I'm unfamiliar) hark back to ancient Rome, where they represented nipples and or dicks. The necklace features 37 pairs of them, some tiny, some