Sanp Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet.

Sanp Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet. 

By Mannan.

This is perhaps why snakes are so often represented in jewellery, their rope-like bodies fascinating and perfectly fitted to being a coiled necklace, stylish bracelet or banded ring.

Red Mine Wala Snake Design Jewellery Necklace.

Red Mine Wala Snack Design Jewellery Necklace.

By Mannan.

Serpents are one of the most ancient and widespread of mythological symbols – just look at Egyptian and Chinese mythology.

Snake Design Silver Jewellery Necklace.

Snake Design Silver Jewellery Necklace.

By Moti Wala.

Whether coiled in a knot atop a ring or wrapped around the wrist as a stylish bracelet, the serpent remains a venerable favorite amongst jewelry motifs.  Its colorfully textured skin and long, rope-like body make for a perfect model from which to mold a piece of jewelry.  

Gold Jewellery Fashion Snake Sanp Bracelet.

Gold Jewellery Fashion Snake Sanp Bracelet.

By Moti Wala.

This elaborate period emphasized heavily on the essence of nature, in which the snake played a prominent role.  Marie-Odile Briot put it best:  ”The serpent is an archaic underworld god, chased out of the Christian Paradise. Just like a gemstone, its plastic perfection makes it a striking sign of the sacred in nature. The snake is the living abstraction of the line which Art Nouveau would see as the underlying ‘biomorphic’ structure of form,” (via New York Times).

Snack Design Gold Jewellery Zircon Stone Bracelet.

 Snacks Design Gold Jewellery Zircon Stone Bracelet.

By Mannan.

Despite the slight dwindling in popularity in times after Victoria, the snake enjoyed a brief resurgence during the Art Nouveau period with the help of the renowned French jewelers Jules René Lalique and Georges Fouquet. 

Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet It Women.

Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet It Women.

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Designed as a tapered coiled gold serpent, with sculpted gold scales, to the old mine-cut diamond and square-cut emerald head, with cabochon ruby eyes, mounted in silver and gold, circa 1860, 17 ins.

Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bridal Necklace.

Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bridal Necklace.

By Stone.

AN ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL, MULTI-GEM AND DIAMOND CORSAGE ORNAMENT, BY GEORGES FOUQUET

Designed as green plique-à-jour enamel and sculpted gold sea serpent, the body set with a cabochon moss agate, within a calibré-cut emerald surround, suspending an articulated series of textured gold, freshwater pearl and enamel links, to the blister pearl terminal, mounted in gold, circa 1901, with French assay marks and maker's mark

Signed G. Fouquet for Georges Fouquett

Snake Design Silver Jewellery Bracelet.

Snake Design Silver Jewellery Bracelet.

By Stone.

Peaking in the 1840s, the snake represented wisdom and eternity during this period and was a ubiquitous motif on rings, bracelets, brooches and necklaces. Visit site to buy 

14k Gold Snake Jewellery Design Necklace.

14k Gold Snake Jewellery Design Necklace.

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The Victorian era incited the proliferation of snake jewelry after Prince Albert proposed to Queen Victoria with the very first engagement ring, which was in the image of a snake with an emerald-set head.  For Victoria, the snake was an emblem of eternal love, making her betrothal ring the ultimate token of happily-ever-after. 

Silver Jewellery Snake Design Bracelet.

Silver Jewellery Snake Design Bracelet.

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While Cleopatra may be the most notable historic figure to espouse the wearing of snake jewelry, Greek, Nordic, African, and Native Americans have all celebrated this intriguing reptile in gilded forms with varying meaning.

Women Fashion Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet.

Women Fashion Snake Design Gold Jewellery Bracelet.

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 Throughout time, different civilizations have interpreted the serpent’s symbolism in different ways:  the Egyptians saw it represent royalty and deity; in Rabbinical tradition and Hinduisim, the snake represents sexual passion and desire; while the Romans interpreted the snake as a symbol of everlasting love.

Women Fashion Blake Gold Snake Jewellery Necklace.

Women Fashion Blake Gold Snake Jewellery Necklace.

By Stone.

As one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols, it’s no wonder serpents (snakes) remain as popular in jewelry as they did back in ancient Egyptian times.  What makes this creature so intriguing to mankind is its dual expression of good and evil, fertility and rebirth, poison and medicine.