Butterfly Essex Crystal
$4,700
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A butterfly with its wings open, painted by hand in fine detail and set into the back of a domed rock crystal over mother-of-pearl. Look at it straight on and it seems to hover inside the stone — the whole point of reverse intaglio, a Victorian craft almost no one still practices. Framed in 18k solid gold. The oldest symbol there is for change, made in the most permanent way I know. Made to be worn every day, not saved for one.