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Jewelry has been used for a number of reasons:

In currencies, the display and preservation of wealth,
Functional use (such as clips, pins and buckles)
Symbolism (to show membership or status)
Protection (in the form of amulets and magical wards), [4]
Artistic display
Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of accumulated wealth in the form of jewelry. many cultures marriage dowry in the form of jewelry or create jewelry as a way to store or display coins. In addition, jewelry was used as a good or currency;. An example is the use of slave accounts [citation needed]

Many items of jewelry such as brooches and buckles originated as purely functional items, but become decorative elements such as decreased functional requirements [5].

Jewelry can also be a symbol of belonging to groups such as crucifixes or Jewish Christian star of David, or the state, as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wear a wedding ring .

The use of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures, which may take the form of symbols (such as the ankh), stones, plants, animals, body parts (like the Khamsa), or glyphs (such as stylized versions of the Throne Verse in Islamic art) [6].

While artistic quality was clearly a function of jewelry from the beginning, the other roles described above tended to take precedence. [Citation needed] Only in the late 19 with the masters as Peter Carl Fabergé and René Lalique, that art began to take primacy over function and wealth. [Citation needed] This trend continued in modern times, however, artists such as Robert Lee Morris, Ed Levin, and Alberto Repossi