Engraved on the back of the pendant are the words "LET THAT DETERMINE WHAT YOU DO AND SAY AND THINK". The front of the pendant shows the hourglass, skull, and tulip with the words Memento Mori. Each pendant comes with a 24" sterling silver chain and is handcrafted using traditional techniques and only the finest materials. The mixed-metal pendants are handmade by the same artist who drew the design, using the ancient processes of carving into the wax and casting into brass and sterling silver and then sawing, engraving, hammering & soldering the metals with precision and care. 14K Real Solid Gold Memento Mori Tarot Card Pendant, Gold Stoicism Necklace, Memento Mori Jewelry, Personalized Memento Mori Disc Charm Gift (397) Sale Price 212.53 212.53 303.62 Original Price 303.62 (30 off) FREE shipping. This design, custom to Daily Stoic, was hand-sketched by an artist in Brooklyn, NY, Lewis Williams. A beautiful memento mori pendant, a literal and inescapable reminder that “you could leave life right now.” The original painting is part of a genre referred to as Vanitas, a form of 17th century artwork featuring symbols of mortality which encourage reflection on the meaning and fleetingness of life.ĭaily Stoic is excited to announce an easy way to keep this important thought in mind. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne expressed a similar sentiment in his painting " Still Life with a Skull ," which showed the three essentials of existence: the tulip (life), the skull (death), and the hourglass (time). ![]() Let that determine what you do and say and think.” That was a personal reminder to continue living a life of virtue NOW, and not wait. It was probably sold by the Cary family who lived in the house from 1662 until the early 20th century.In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote “You could leave life right now. We know nothing definite about the history of the jewel until the V&A acquired it. In comparison to memento mori, Victorian mourning jewelry incorporated motifs that were less morbid and the colors were decidedly muted. Parts of the abbey were in due course converted into a private house. While mourning jewelry can indeed be made of gold and enameled in black (see ring dating to 1853 above), that is one of its only commonalities with memento mori other than being related to death. Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries (their closure) in the later 1530s, and the jewel appears to date from no earlier than the 1540s. ![]() However, this does not mean that it had any connection with Torre Abbey when it was a monastery. In 1856, when the V&A bought the jewel for £21, it was believed to have been found in the grounds of Torre Abbey, Devon. It states boldly in English that through Christ's resurrection - his sacrifice on the Cross and his rising from the dead - we are all 'sanctified' or made holy. The inscription, however, shows that the wearer believed that we need not fear death. ![]() The skeleton and coffin reminded the wearer that death, and therefore judgement, were certain, and so it encouraged a virtuous life. ![]() It is a powerful example of a type of jewellery known as memento mori (roughly translated from the Latin as 'Remember you must die'). This is a pendant jewel, which would have hung from a chain.
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