Art Deco Hammered Gold Ring with Ruby, by Steiner

Art Deco Hammered Gold Ring with Ruby, by Steiner

A hammered gold anthroposophical ring set with an oval facetted natural untreated bright red Cambodian ruby. From the Steiner workshops during Karl Mohr’s supervision.

• Period: Art Deco
• Maker: Rudolf Steiner & Bertha Meyer Jacobs
• Ruby: approx. 1.40 carats
• Ring size: 19.5 mm / 9 ½ USA
• Gross weight: 12.41 grams
• Dimensions: 2.0 x 1.8 cm

Austrian philosopher and writer Rudolf Steiner founded anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement. Its philosophy postulates a path to insight in an effort to connect the spiritual in the human being with the spiritual in the cosmos. He applied his theory not only to medical science, education and agriculture, but also to architecture and jewellery.

Steiner started out as a theosophist and later became a great admirer of the German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In the Swiss provincial town of Dornach, he built the Goetheanum (a cultural centre), whose organic shapes recalled Jugendstil design. It was surrounded by smaller structures with workplaces for craftsmen and housed the Freie Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft (University College of Humanities), where the new ideas about shapes and forms were taught in the arts department.