handful of rings

I picked out a handful of rings from my own collection that for me express the Victorian aesthetic of mourning jewelry. These rings are not all Victorian nor are they all "mourning" but to me together they provide the right feel.

I included the purple jade since to me purple is such a mournful color and the pansy pinkie ring because even as far back as Shakespeare, Ophelia says, "There's pansies, that's for thoughts." There's something about grief that keeps you wound up obsessively in your thoughts. The black pieces are traditional mourning style pieces. The diamonds for inheritance. And the cut work silver piece struck me as ruminative.