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Large Filigree Gold Earrings with Coral Cameos, c. 1830

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Large Filigree Gold Earrings with Coral Cameos, c. 1830

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The portraits of four majestic ladies have been cut into red Mediterranean coral for this impressively large pair of drop earrings. Wide frames made of fine gold wire surround the cameos in a smaller upper section, which is followed by a movably mounted, larger center piece. Three faceted drops of coral are attached to each, resulting in a total length of around nine centimetres. Understated gold hoops, which are set as leverbacks behind the smaller cameos, complete the earrings. The frames of filigree gold spirals are made using a special technique called cannetille. Jewelry with cannetille was particularly popular in the decade from 1820 to 1830. The technique is related to filigree and usually consists of finely hammered sheet metal and gold wires in the form of tendrils and spirals that look like delicate lace and are often decorated with fine granules. The use of the cannetille, like the design of the earrings, therefore shows that the cameos and their settings were created around 1830. The cameos were probably carved in Italy, in the Bay of Naples, where high quality coral jewellery and carved cameos were created for the Italian travelers of the time. The impressive earrings found their way to us here in Berlin. On the technique of cannetille with numerous examples, see Ginny Reddington Dawes/Olivia Collings: Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830, Woodbridge 2007, pp. 113-116 and David Bennet/Daniela Mascetti: Understanding Jewellery, Woodbridge 2010, p. 82, p. 85.

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