British Valentine Locket

$150.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art jewelry inspired by The Met collection. Delicately decorated with garnet and cultured freshwater pearl accents, the romantic floral motif on this functional gold vermeil locket evokes a British valentine produced around 1875. The valentine, now associated with courtship, evolved out of the medieval practice of giving religious images on richly embellished parchment as commemorative gifts. The 19th-century valentine that inspired this jewelry bears a bouquet with the endearing message, "Ever yours." Read…