Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

"The jewelry with which we choose to embellish ourselves speaks volumes. To embrace a Parrish Relics piece is to gravitate toward meaning and sentiment, reflecting our most innermost feelings, special memories, or symbols that resonate within us." ~ Stephanie Chatfield for the Pre-Raphaelite Issue of Enchanted Living Magazine

Parrish Relics is an LGBTQ-owned, one-woman business.
From creative materials to packaging, to studio practices, I strive to make Parrish Relics as vegan and eco-friendly as possible, and am constantly seeking new ways to lessen my negative impact on the planet. Trying to be a Helper.
A percentage of all sales are donated to animal/eco/human rights. To read more visit: #givingback
To learn more about my work and inspirations: about

isabella stewart gardner museum

Past work for Beverly Schmeis - former buyer/curator of Gift at the Gardner.

We worked together to create pictorial & stained glass window pendants featuring the museum's collections, flowers and architecture over the years before her retirement. Enjoyed my collaborations with her immensely.

One-of-a-kind clay frames and found image jewelry - featuring El Jaleo
by John Singer Sargent, A Young Lady of Fashion.

A selection of the Nasturtium collection designed for Beverly.

current design

I am now working with sterling silver and bronze, antiqued for a romantic appearance of age and History. Each original is carved by hand in wax or sculpted of clay, cast and then hand-finished in my rural Massachusetts workshop.

Over the past few years I have worked with Tate Britain & the British Museum for special exhibitions. Below are a few new works inspired by recent visits to the ISGM. Would love to share my passion for this very special place with your visitors and gift shop customers.

*all prices shown are suggested retail, happy to work with wholesale or consignment.

le petit chat

Recently completed a tiny, wearable version of the sweet cat sculpture held within a bookshelf in the Long Gallery of the ISGM.

bronze $128. sterling $138.

left: My own little grumpy feline, Galatea.

right: Emmanuel Frémiet, Cat Figurine, 19th Century. Gilt wood.

queen isabella

Inspired by the architectural Venetian stone arches that surround the courtyard.

Right: Antiqued sterling Queen Isabella arch with faceted amethyst.

starting @ $148. bronze, $158. sterling

Antiqued bronze fleur-de-lys with peridot & crowned Queen Isabella arch with labradorite.

Antiqued sterling Queen Isabella Arch & antiqued bronze le petit chat.

Antiqued sterling fleur-de-lys on velvet with le petit chat.

fleur-de-lis

Simple pendants @ $132. bronze, $142. sterling.

Antiqued bronze fleur-de-lis set with cobalt stained glass in a sterling arch frame. $318.

Shown with sterling & cobalt fleur earrings $72.

hart of the oak bower

Adapted from Albrecht Dürer's "Ornament with a Deer Lying in a Circle of Oak Branches".

Painstakingly carved in wax over a few months, finally cast in antiqued bronze ($148.) and sterling ($158.)

trois fleurs sacrées

New delicate floral pendant inspired by the Victorian Architect AWN Pugin & the millefleur tapestries of Medieval Europe.

trois fleurs sacrées amulet - antiqued bronze with faceted amethyst @ $108. (& joyeux mille-fleurs earrings)

trois fleurs sacrées amulet - antiqued sterling & carved aventurite leaf @ $132.

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Pictorial images from the ISGM collection & stained glass in colors that reflect the courtyard can be set into antiqued bronze or sterling silver frames.

Below are several styles currently in production, always working on new designs.