Antique Victorian Mourning French Jet STAR Silver Stud Earrings

Description: About this Piece Era: Late VictorianLength: 5/8” including hook Width: Just over 3/8"Material: Tests for 800 silver, glassWeight: 1.5 gramsMark: No mark Why You’ll Love ItTiny truly shines in this Victorian treasure. Take a closer look at these delicate, french-made antique mourning earrings, meticulously crafted from molded glass made to emulate carved jet. Making these tiny earrings all the more remarkable is the subtle striping that catches light and highlights the recessed star motif at the focal point. They may be miniature, but everything about them leaves us with more to love. Condition and Quality● Fresh sheen, crisp molded design, and no chipping on the glass.● Secure, original lever-backings. Collector NoteOn Mourning Jewelry. Mourning jewelry from the Georgian and Victorian eras were special, custom pieces designed in the memory of a deceased loved one. While many mourning pieces used dark materials like natural onyx or jet to convey grief, they were often surprisingly hopeful, as the majority of the western world believed they would one day be reunited with their loved one in the afterlife. Pieces incorporated symbols that represented this hope or the characteristics of their loved one, as well as locks of hair or small portraits. Today, collecting and wearing antique mourning jewelry is to honor the memory of a real person and appreciate the sentimentality of a bygone era. On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria’s taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid. _gsrx_vers_1516 (GS 9.3 (1516))

Price: 165 USD

Location: Altadena, California

End Time: 2024-10-06T00:22:15.000Z

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