Product Details

A late-19th-century crowned heart pendant carved from a substantial smoky quartz heart and surmounted by an 18k gold crown set with alternating rubies and emeralds and finished with seed pearls. The crown is entirely hand fabricated, with chased detailing and rope-twist borders characteristic of fin-de-siècle workmanship, and topped with a pearl finial in place of a traditional gold orb. Measuring approximately 3 inches long and weighing about 45 grams, the pendant has the scale and gravity associated with elite Victorian presentation jewelry, particularly marriage-related pieces. Crowned heart jewels of this type reflect the period’s historicist fascination with Tudor and Stuart iconography, including imagery linked to Mary Queen of Scots.