File:EB1911 Jewelry - Etruscan.jpg
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English: Etruscan jewelry at its best is not easily distinguished from the Greek, but it tends in its later forms to become florid and diffuse, without precision of design. The granulation of surfaces practised with the highest degree of refinement by the Etruscans was long a puzzle and a problem to the modern jeweller, until Castellani of Rome discovered gold-workers in the Abruzzi to whom the method had descended through many generations. He induced some of these men to go to Naples, and so revived the art, of which he contributed examples to the London Exhibition of 1872. |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 15, 1911, “Jewelry,” Plate II (between pp. 366 and 367), Figs. 71-77. | |||
| Author | Unknown jewellers and photographer | |||
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| Figs. | 71-77 | (Plate II.) | are well-marked examples of Etruscan work, in the British Museum. |
| ” | 71 | ” | Pair of sirens, repoussé, forming a hook and eye fastening. From Chiusi (?). |
| ” | 72 | ” | Early fibula. Horse and chimaera. (Blacas coll.) |
| ” | 74 | ” | Medallion-shaped fibula, of fine granulated work, with figures of sirens in relief, and set with dark blue pastes. (Bale coll.) |
| ” | 73, 75 | ” | Pair of late Etruscan ear-rings. |
| ” | 76, 77 | ” | Pair of late Etruscan ear-rings, in the florid style. |
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