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Metalwork Collection

Accession Nr.: 16833.a-b
Date of production:
second half of the 19th cent.
Place of production: Austria (presumably)
Materials: silver-gilt
Dimensions:
height: 2,8 cm
width: 2,5 cm
The ear clips present a stylised vase with flowers the whole surface is covered with white, green, pink flied glass beads of various sizes. This is a historicizing version of an originally Italian jewel type, fairly popular in the 15th-16th centuries, where precious stones were replaced by "surrogate" material.

Literature

  • a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 462. (Békési Éva)