Lost Owl Janus Intaglio Signet Ring mid-century kind of like rose cuts

kind of like rose cuts but with an exaggerated point/ridge running along the top

and pearls

black appearance

The pendant mount is Georgian

with bright purple paste gemstones set in pinchbeck

Lost Owl Janus Intaglio Signet Ring mid-century kind of like rose cutsAn intaglio signet ring by Lost Owl. The Roman god Janus is rendered in bloodstone, looking forwards and back. Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double sided head. Januss religious history is notably complex and obscure. His earliest sphere of influence was the doorway itself (ianua meaning door in Latin), but he gradually came to embody