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Long Victorian Gold Earrings, Great Britain ca. 1875


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Long Victorian Gold Earrings, Great Britain ca. 1875
Long Victorian Gold Earrings, Great Britain ca. 1875
Description
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With the dress fashion, with the hair fashion, but also with the change of moral and political ideas of society, the earring fashion also changed over the times. In the 1880s and 1890s, for example, it was considered indelicate to wear long and conspicuous earrings during the day. Shortly before, however, around 1870, things looked quite different: Bright gold and as long as possible, the earrings should also be during the day. Since the hair was ondulated into corkscrew curls and gathered at the nape of the neck, the earlobes adorned in this way were also shown off to excellent advantage (cf. illustration, from the "Journal des Demoiselles", 1869). The present pair of ear pendulums shows this long, slender form. Torpedo-shaped pendulous suspensions, borrowed from the Etruscan Revival, are the real focal points of the earrings. They are set below understated decorative elements of filigree-bent gold wire. Simple, stretched gold pods lead over to the ear wires. Additional fine gold plating and line matting makes them shine velvety and golden yellow. Despite their striking length of just under seven centimeters, the earrings are very light and thus comfortable to wear even over a longer period of time, because they are hollow worked, typical of the time. They are very well preserved and after a century and a half are still as wearable as on the first day. To us they found in London.
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Long Victorian Gold Earrings, Great Britain ca. 1875
À l’Étrusque
€ 890.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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