Pair of earrings (enlarged format)

Pair of earrings "à Rainha" (i.e., "in the Queen" style) in golden metal. The "goldsmith's art collection" of the Popular Art Museum results, to a large extent, from acquisitions made by the Bureau for National Propaganda (Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional) to several shops in Lisbon, who, in turn, purchased those items directly from their makers in the North of Portugal. Such acquisitions, including this specimen of very enlarged format, were made from 1935 and 1940 and were displayed in the folk art exhibitions made in several countries throughout the 1930s, as well and in 1940 for the "Exhibition of the Portuguese World".