A Ring – More Than Just Metal Have you ever wondered what kind of soul antique jewelry carries within? How, seemingly silent, it whispers the stories of vanished dynasties, saturates everyday life with aristocratic brilliance, and sometimes abruptly becomes a symbol of epochal shifts in culture? Few realize that behind the slender band of a bracelet or the…

For a long time, this sculptor worked as the chief model-maker at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. Over nearly half a century at the Saint Petersburg enterprise, he created numerous original plastic forms. The works of August Karl Spiess (1817—1904) span the second half of the 19th century, a period rich in cultural transformation.