Celestial Symbols Carved Mother-of-Pearl Coin Hoop Earrings

$40.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unique gifts for her. A stained-glass roundel (1390) at The Met Cloisters lends its celestial motifs to these whimsical earrings. The original was crafted in a large court workshop in Niederösterreich, Austria, and 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 century, the castle never returned to its medieval splendor; with the exception of a surviving panel in Vienna, this roundel and a series…