The Egyptian god of life, death, resurrection and afterlife, Osiris, bequeaths the 'Breath of Life', the Ankh, upon those to be blessed with immortality. The Ankh also symbolises Venus, Greek goddess of love, beauty, sex and desire.

A pair of small, antiqued pewter Egyptian ankh droppers, suspended on a short length of chain and each set with an amethyst Austrian crystal; on surgical steel ear-wires.