Unicorn Brooch

$115.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art jewelry inspired by The Met collection. This fanciful unicorn evokes the mythological creature in The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495–1505), a remarkable French and South Netherlandish textile at The Met Cloisters. The Museum's beloved medieval masterwork may have been created as a single image, though it's considered one of the seven so-called Unicorn Tapestries, which are among the most impressive extant artworks from the late Middle Ages. The unicorn likely signifies tamed love, as the pomegranate tree…