Jeweled Snake Necklace

$135.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art jewelry makes a unique gift for her. The serpentine elegance of our pendant necklace is informed by a Roman-period Egyptian gold bracelet (1st century CE) in the form of a coiled snake. Bracelets with animals, including snakes, appeared in western Asia as far back as the 8th century BCE and spread to Greece (where the snake possessed healing associations, among others) in the 5th century BCE before arriving in Egypt, where examples of serpentine jewelry were crafted throughout the Ptolemaic (332–30 BCE)…