Rome, Italy — Wisteria, one of the world’s favorite climbing plants has been immortalized in the Roman workshops of Le Sibille, the high jewlery house specialized in the ancient technique of micro-mosaics. Fashioned in gold, the Wisteria ring is adorned with micro-mosaics, sky diamonds and dreamy Blue Cambodian zircon. Zircon is one of the official birthstones of the month of December. The Wisteria ring is part of the house’s enchanting floral world of meticulously crafted pieces in which the jewelry house unveils exquisite pieces in gold adorned with intricate micro-mosaics, tsavorites, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. Each piece in Le Sibille’s Floral Universe collection captures the delicate beauty and vibrant colors of flowers.

The Wisteria ring from Le Sibille in gold with micro-mosaics, sky diamonds and dreamy Blue Cambodian zircon. Photo courtesy Le Sibille. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette

Mosaics are an integral part of Roman culture that have been in style since Antiquity. The Romans would use them to decorate the walls of their villas, their tiles and table tops from the early days of the Empire. The subsequent miniature mosaic technique was born in the 1770s and drew its inspiration from the ancient mosaics of Imperial Rome. But it was the Vatican workshop (La Reverenda Fabbrica) that developed the mosaics made of tesserae and this technique was refined over the centuries to make smaller and smaller works of art. The workshop offered ornaments for boxes, small paintings, jewelry and vases, authentic works of art, some of which can be seen today in the Vatican Museum.

The Cherry ring from Le Sibille in gold with micro-mosaics and gemstones. Photo courtesy Le Sibille. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette

Le Sibille has taken up the torch and perpetrates this ancestral know-how to create pieces of jewelry that are beyond luxury, they are pieces of art. The three founders Camilla Bronzini, Francesca Neri Serneri and Antonella Perugini, were inspired by their personal research and knowledge from within their respective studies in art and archaeology and subsequently founded the house in the 1990s. The Sibyls are well-known mythological characters who in Greek and Roman Antiquity were reputed for their ability to foretell the future. The Roman Sibyl was known as the Cumaean Sibyl.

The Lavender ring from Le Sibille in gold with micro-mosaics and gemstones. Photo courtesy Le Sibille. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette

You can find the house’s jewelry in Paris at the Ritz, in Venice at Cipriani, Danieli and Bevilacqua on the Piazza San Marco, in Rome at Le Sibille Atelier, in the United States at Twist Seattle and Portland, Neapolitan Collection in Winnetka, Illinois, just north of Chicago and one of the wealthiest towns in the United States in terms of household income. ©Trish Valicenti for The Gourmet Gazette.http://www.lesibille.com. Le Sibille, Via Muzio Clementi, 68/B 00193 Rome, Italy, @lesibille, +39 06 375 141 56