Hand-Enameled Jeweled Earrings

$55.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

These timeless earrings are based on one of the motifs from the Imperial Renaissance Egg by the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846–1920). The Imperial Renaissance Egg was probably inspired by a 16-century casket known to Fabergé from his student days in Dresden. The chalcedony egg is ornamented with Renaissance-style decorations, brilliantly enameled in translucent colors and opaque white, and set with diamonds and cabochon rubies. It rests on a gold base with loop handles hanging from gold lion…