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Bracelet

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sonsca. 1880

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Heavy gold bracelet with six cruciform motifs and forty-two cabochon emeralds. "Medieval" style- continuation of Castellani expanding their repetoire of historical styles.

Details

  • Title: Bracelet
  • Creator: Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons
  • Date Created: ca. 1880
  • Type: Bracelet
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Anonymous Donor, Annie Schermerhorn Kane, and various donors
  • Medium: Gold, emeralds
  • Markings: On verso: interlocked "C"s
  • Exhibitions: "Opening Our Doors," Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, June 4, - August 30, 1998"The Castellani and Italian Archeological Jewelry", The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY, November 17, 2004 - Feburary 6, 2005.
  • Dimensions: H: 3 cm x L: 21.8 cm x D: 0.9 cm
  • Bibliography: Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry, Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 390 and fig. 2-46.

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