The Saint Michael Onyx Ring is a sterling silver band engraved with the figure of Saint Michael, the archangel who appears throughout Western art as an armed defender, and set with a deep black onyx stone at its center. The onyx reads as a flat, unbroken field of black, while all of the carved detail sits in the silver around it.That division is what shapes the piece: the stone stays plain so the engraved figure reads clearly against it. Michael has stood for protection, courage and the holding of a line, worn here as a cultural symbol rather than as a religious piece.
