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Symbol Set

22K GOLD, 2023

Four 22-carat gold earrings designed for the New York-based designer Raf Swiader. Their form references motifs found in early medieval herbals as well as symbolic glyphs present in the manuscript Clavis Salomonis. The project seeks to translate a system of meanings connecting natural knowledge, astrology and magic into the language of jewellery.

Behind the Work

Illustration of Centaurium erythraea from the 6th-century Leiden manuscript of Pseudo-Apuleius’ Herbarius
Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by ‘Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa’ (Three works by Livio Agrippa), c. 1775. Folio with a magical sigil.