Silver cow keychain with its daisy

Clear rhinestones from the horns to the hooves on this cow keyring

Short legs, black hooves, a tail raised and finished with a tuft: the shape is round and openly cartoonish. Stones cover the whole body and stop only where the enamel takes over, while the head carries two smooth horns above a cream muzzle. The red tongue hanging out is the part most people notice first, and the two black patches, one on the flank and one on the hindquarters, keep the outline readable from a distance.

Silver tone against four enamel colours

The whole piece sticks to a short palette. Silver-coloured metal and colourless rhinestones carry the bulk of it, then four enamels do the rest: black for the patches, the hooves and the top of the head, cream for the muzzle, red for the tongue and the flower, pale pink for the udder. That is still more colour than most of the metal charms on the keyring shelf, where silver and clear stones usually appear on their own.

Turn it over and the settings are hearts

The back is plain silver-coloured metal, with no stones at all. What you see instead are the cups that grip each rhinestone from behind, and every one of them is shaped like a heart. The reverse therefore reads as a scatter of small hollow hearts, which nothing on the front suggests.

Materials and measurements

The same treatment, pinned on instead

Enamel over metal, with rhinestones set into it, is not reserved for keyrings here. Several animals in the brooch range are built the same way, among them a turtle, a cat and an elephant; they fasten to a coat or a bag strap rather than to a bunch of keys.