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
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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