Gold Earrings with Pearls and Greek Meander Decor, Paris, c. 1870

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Gold Earrings with Pearls and Greek Meander Decor, Paris, c. 1870

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Earring fashion has changed over the course of time, along with clothing and hair fashion, but also with the sensibilities of a society. In the 1880s and 1890s, for example, it was considered indelicate to wear long, eye-catching earrings during the day. But shortly before that, around 1870, things looked very different: Earrings should be bright gold and as long as possible, even during the day. As the hair was curled into corkscrew curls and gathered at the nape of the neck, the earlobes adorned in this way were also shown to their best advantage (see the last illustration, from the Journal des Demoiselles, 1869). The present pair is in a three-part, finely crafted form. The earwires are attached to engraved round elements with guilloché in the center, in the middle of which small natural pearls are set, held in place by a black enameled setting. A curved frame, engraved with an all-round meander band, completes the design on the outside. Delicate clasps, also set with pearls, lead on to similarly shaped elements that are slightly larger than those above them. The earrings bear French hallmarks and are made of 18-karat gold. They are in very good condition and are still as wearable after more than a century and a half as they were on the first day. They came to us from the Rhineland.

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