16/10/2026
I sold my favourite one!! Twice!! 🤠 This Vessel of Life and Memory Charm Necklace features my very favourite amulet - the Tall Amphora. 🏺 I sculpted this in 2019 when I was studying a module in the History of Alcohol. 🌝 Our tutor took us for a drink at an old Bristol pub and even brought port into our seminar hehehe. Evan Jones is a legend. 🍷
I was very taken with the vessels on the pages, and started sculpting some of them, teaching myself how to slowly and carefully carve hollow vessels from hard jewellers wax. Little did I know I couldn’t mould a hollow form, and then I had to take a saw to the cast version (and let’s say my sawing skills are not great…). Every Amphora is different as I melt and seal and sculpt the two moulded halves back together. 💦
I was told that when amphorae fell out of fashion, vintage w**es weren’t produced again until the glass bottle and cork system was invented in the early modern period. Before that w**e was commonly sent in wooden barrels, and therefore it oxidised quickly.
This 9ct rolled gold watch chain features three of my hand carved and cast amulets and a very nice stash of reclaimed semi precious gemstones. A baroque beehive-esque pearl. An antique citrine cufflink. Tibetan turquoise. A vintage angel skin coral. 👀
I’m very grateful for the orders of these. They’re a real labour of love and they’re costly to produce but I do adore them. 🥰 I am winding down the Charm Necklaces at the end of the year…