Inside Out Library · Explore

Jewellery (1908)

Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford), 1876-1960 · London : Methuen and co · leaf 422

An illustration from Jewellery, 1908, leaf 422
PLATE XLll … SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EARRINGS on movable stalks, composed of clusters of preciousstones in enamelled gold, accompanied sometimes by ajewelled knot, and was fixed in the hair on all occasionsof ceremony. A large number of these bouquets arementioned in the inventory of the French crown jewelsof 1618.…

Jewelry

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Jewellery

More like this