The cocktail ring has a long history as a milestone gift. Its bold design makes it a tangible, visible marker of celebration in a way that more understated pieces are not.
Style Notes
Yellow gold and lapis lazuli is a pairing with more art historical grounding than almost any other stone-metal combination in fine jewelry: Egyptian, Sumerian, and Persian jewelers independently came to appreciate warm metal against royal blue, and the combination has held across every subsequent era.
A Storied Heritage
The serpent has accumulated symbolic meaning across jewelry history the way few motifs manage. What started out as protection in ancient Egypt and eternity in Rome finally turned to eternal love in the Romantic era: tracing directly to Queen Victoria's serpent engagement ring, a single influential piece that redefined the motif's primary association.