Antique jewelry sorted per theme

Antique jewelry in various themes and techniques
(click the pictures to get to the collections)

Luck

Love

Religion

Mythology

Human

Flora

Animals

Insects

Filigree

Enamel

Cameo

Micro mosaic

Dear fellow antique and estate jewelry afficionado,

Eleven months a year we try to amuse you with a weekly cute antique jewelry related mail. However, this time of the year we take the liberty of sending you some mails without any special picture or back-ground information on symbolism, style or era. There will be just a list of present suggestions.

But why do we send you these mails? We would like to show you in how many ways one can look at antique jewelry. Nothing dusty and old-fashioned about it. Wearing antique jewelry is making a statement of good taste! And there are so many angles on how to browse through our collection... per object, per theme, per color, per month stone, per price, per age, per etc. etc. etc. Just click the pictures and you are being offered a special collection of antique jewelry based, this week, on their theme and/or production technique.

Don't worry, these few mails (spread over three weeks) will be as much "hard marketing" as you can expect from us in a whole year. Rest assured that it will take another year before we will brag again about all those beautiful pieces of antique and estate jewelry that can be bought online from us and that it will take only about 2 or 3 working days from the moment of buying to the moment it is delivered at your doorstep.

antiqually yours,
The Adin team

Antiqualy yours,

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Micro Mosaic brooch by Castellani

Micro Mosaic brooch by Castellani

Master Jewellers of the 19th Century

(Click the picture to get to this magnificent Castellani brooch.)

 

Castellani - Castellani's first shop was opened in Rome in the year 1814. Specializing in recreating jewelry of ancient craftsmen, particularly the Etruscans, his work became fashionable and much wanted in 19th Century Europe and America. The Castellani shop had the aristocracy and the so-called grand tourists as customers. 

Many of the designs of Castellani's jewelry is based on archaeological evidence and often incorporated cameos, intaglios and micromosaics (like the one pictured) into his jewelry. The Castellani dynasty spanned three generations and nowadays Castellani is one of the big names in antique jewelry that is most sought for and very rare to find. 

Although not obvious on first sight, these are not Latin but Greek letters. The letters EY stand for "good health" but one could also say it's the abbreviation for "Eternally Yours". 

Antiqualy yours,

The Adin team
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Garden of Adin's latest gossip: Micromosaic Butterfly and Ladybug seen together!

Garden of Adin's latest gossip:
Micromosaic Butterfly and Ladybug seen together!

(Click the picture to get to this beautiful micromosaic pendant)

Micromosaic is made from many small adjacent pieces (tesserae) of inlaid varicoloured glass or stone arranged to form a picture or design. For articles of jewelry, the mosaic was usually made in the form of medallions set in brooches, pendants, necklaces, finger rings, ear-rings, parures, etc.

Such work has been done principally in Italy, some being executed with skill and artistry in the 19th century, but many pieces being made in recent years as tourist souvenirs, with large tesserae of stone or glass that are roughly set, and sometimes with some painted portions. Pieces of good quality were mounted in gold frames, including some made by the Casa Castellani in Rome. The fashion for mosaic jewelry in England was mainly in the period 1820-60.

Mosaic work in jewelry was of two types:

• Roman or Byzantine mosaic, with the tesserae made of glass, set into molten glass, and fused together
• Florentine mosaic. (Venetian mosaic) made of slices of coloured glass canes, usually making a millefiori pattern, was seldom used for pieces of jewelry.

In both types the decorative motifs were often pictorial views of ancient ruins or famous buildings, and in the 1820s Egyptian motifs, but by the mid-l9th century the usual subjects had become more sentimental, e.g. flowers and pet dogs. The Florentine mosaic was imitated in Derbyshire, England, in the late 18th to early 19 century, by using local black marble and feldspar.

Antiqualy yours,
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