Our love for jewelry goes deep at the Mini Mini Market, and we always on the hunt for some new designer that can make a piece of jewelry that sets our heart a fluttering. . . and the Italian designers, Made In Museum, have recently done so. Always wanting to take home the jewelry that they saw in the museums (um, who doesn’t? the Egyptian jewelry at the Met is alone to die for. . .?), the design team decided to make their own authentic and authorized reproductions of some of their favorite ancient pieces they were coveting. What unfolded were designs spanning across eras and eras. See the special historic pieces we’re carrying right now:

The Etruscan era is hard to get past, and we’re in love with these Bauletto earrings in sterling vermeil that are made from the ancient “lost wax” method and is treated with an antiquing process.

In the ancient Egyptian days, there seemed to probably be a lot of flies hanging around the desert and the people because if you look at the jewelry and the written language, flies even had their own hieroglyphic. 

The fly motif in general found in Ancient Egypt and adopted in Ancient Rome, was thought to be a good luck charm and have various meanings including prosperity and tenacity.

From the Venezia collection, this horse ring was inspired in part by one of the classical era bronze and gilded horses located in the museum in St. Mark’s Cathedral Church. This sterling vermeil ring has the cool side note of part of its proceeds are given to the Venice International Foundation to support their work in art restoration projects in the civic museums in Venice.