Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love, and Loyalty
“ Pliny accepted this love of rings and brilliant gems as an aspect of the universal desire for luxury: ‘let women have gold in their bracelets and covering their fingers and on their necks, ears and tresses, let gold chains run at random round their waists and let little bags of pearls hang invisible suspended from their lady owner’s neck, so that even in their sleep they may retain the consciousness of possessing gems’ ”
-Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love, and Loyalty by Diana Scarisbrick
