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Large Gold Earrings, Reconstruction From an Antique Brooch, Around

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the forms of jewellery of classical antiquity were still unknown. Neither in the Renaissance, nor in Classicism had archaeological excavations produced genuine jewellery of antiquity. The designs of these epochs had merely been approximations of an ideal that had to be derived from other contexts such as architecture or sculpture. This changed abruptly with the discovery of genuine Etruscan jewellery in Italy from the 1820s onwards. Princess Alexandrine of Canino, for example, was known to enjoy wearing some original Etruscan jewellery found at her country estate near Rome, to the envy of her friends. But the number of pieces, which were all chance finds, remained small and only a fraction of the ladies could still own original, millennia-old Etruscan jewellery. Therefore, the goldsmiths of those years soon began to produce new pieces of jewellery according to now finally known antique forms. Especially Pio Castellani from Rome and his sons excelled in this field and designed jewellery, which from the middle of the century became a well-known trademark and a true fashion in the whole of Europe. But also in the rest of Europe their works, which were quickly known under the term "archaeological style", were received with interest and merged with the forms of their own history. The pair of earrings here speaks the formal language of this fashion. Beneath an ear hoop with attached bead, a richly decorated element is movably attached, showing flowers and foliage along with fine cord soldering and coiled gold wires. Forming a semicircle at the bottom, long pendulums are suspended and gold beads are attached. The earrings were probably created in recent decades from an antique brooch, a year letter for the year 1912 can be seen on the back of one element, and an originally shorter pair of earrings as a mariage: The two richly ornamented tops were probably joined at their lower ends and framed a now lost round showpiece as a brooch. A skilled goldsmith separated them from each other and inserted them into a pair of earrings there. With the pendants beneath them, they now make a coherent design in late 19th century taste.

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