Celestial Charms Choker

$55.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The celestial charms adorning this choker necklace nod to the sun and moon motifs in a stained-glass roundel (1390) at The Met Cloisters. Crafted in a large court workshop in Niederösterreich, Austria—which specialized in elongated figures positioned in profile, heavy masses of drapery, and an unusually rich range of colors—the roundel was originally installed in the castle at Ebreichsdorf near the Hungarian border. Having withstood attacks by the Mongols in the 13th century followed by the Turks in the 17th…