Georgia II

A sumptuous Georgian court dress button, this ring preserves the radiance of ceremonial detail.

In eighteenth-century England, court attire was not governed by a taste for display alone. It formed a rigorous language, composed of codes, hierarchies and signs legible to all. The richness of the fabrics, the elaboration of the ornaments, and the choice of colours and accessories expressed, all at once, rank, fortune, political loyalty and the degree of royal favour. Court dress thus became a veritable system of social representation.

Within this highly codified world, every element mattered. Garment ornaments, like jewels, formed part of this silent grammar in which allegiance, status and self-image could be read. In the Georgian era, court adornments — sumptuous and sophisticated — belonged to a world of unapologetic opulence, where elegance became a form of authority.

What once belonged to the realm of display now rests upon the hand.
Georgia II is a Protection Jewel.