Stirrup Ring in the Met Museum

My Stirrup Ring

I saw this ring on The Met Cloisters website — a late 13th or early 14th century British gold stirrup ring with a sapphire — and decided I needed to make one. That’s usually how it starts.

Wax Mold

Wax Mold

I made two, both lost-wax cast in silver and approximately the same size as the original. One set with a sapphire, one with a Herkimer diamond. Gold is not in the budget, but at least one of them got a proper sapphire.

The Herkimer version was a gift for Patronne Murienne l’aloière.

The original is in the collection of The Met Cloisters (accession 2015.697): metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/684497