A tiara with gothic arches made from enamel, gold, sapphires, diamonds, and citrines.
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Red Rose Necklace Terrarium.
A realistic miniature rose is showcased inside an elegant glass vial. Sold on Etsy.
Phurba Dagger (c. late 15th century).
The ritual dagger (Sanskrit: kila; Tibetan: phurba) is essential to the dispelling of evil and understood as being especially helpful in neutralizing the forces that impede Tantric Buddhist practice. Its origins are ancient, appearing in the Indian Rg Veda as the central blade of the vajra that Indra used to slay the primordial cosmic snake Vritra. Its Sanskrit term, kila, which means peg or stake, was probably linked to Vedic sacrifices. The three-headed Vajrakila Buddha is invoked through meditation on the Vajrakila Tantra, an early Indian text first propagated in Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, one of the founding masters of Tibetan Buddhism. In this phurba, a half-vajra projects from Vajrakila’s chignon, and a fully elaborated vajra serves as the hilt, below which project boars’ heads. Rock crystal, valued for its purity and ability to transmit light, is a prized material in this context and thus seen as analogous to the Buddha’s dharma and its immutable higher reality. Along with examples in meteoritic iron, rock-crystal phurba are regarded as the most efficacious in the destruction of obstacles to enlightenment.
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FOR THE WINTER | An ASOIAF AU
In which Ned Stark is a private detective hired by the mysterious widow, Miss Baratheon, to investigate the corrupt lawman, Jaime Lannister. But with the weight of the town council behind Lannister’s father and a mystery wrapped around even Stark’s estranged wife, there’s only one way for any of this to end: in blood.
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A porcelain and gold orange blossom tiara of Queen Victoria’s. It was a gift from her consort, Prince Albert. The four green oranges symbolize their (then) 4 children.
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A diamond Ottoman Empire tiara, with the Islamic crescent moon and star present at the top of the tiara.
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The beautiful emerald and diamond tiara of the Empress Eugenie of France, the last reigning queen of that country.
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18th century poesy ring. Inscription reads:
Many are the stars I see but in my eye no star like thee.
A floral tiara of diamonds and deep blue turquoises, which belonged to Princess Alice, The Duchess of Gloucester.
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