Author: Sabine Albersmeier
Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Giles
Language: English
Features examples of 50 essential items of jewelry dating from the 1st century BC to the turn of the 20th century.
Specific terminology, when used, is always explained; each text clearly states why a particular object is relevant, and the jewelry selected shows an enormous range of periods, regions, artistic and stylist development, and materials.
Signature items featured in this volume include:
A magnificent pair of gold bracelets discovered inside a tomb in Olbia, Ukraine, and dating to the Hellenistic Period of the 1st-century BC;
A pair of gold and semi-precious stone-inlaid eagle fibulae, dating from 6th-century Visigothic Spain;
A cameo and gold-mounted brooch depicting Ellen Walters, made in Italy by the Saulini family around 1862;
A gold Iris Corsage ornament by Tiffany & Co. and a wonderful corsage ornament of pansy blossoms executed in a combination of cast glass and plique-à-jour enamel by René Lalique, dating from 1904.
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