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2. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.

3. Victorian jewellery - Wikipedia

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   The fossilised material, jet was valued because it was lightweight, intense black in colour, durable, inexpensive and could be easily carved. [3] [10] Jet was used to design mourning jewellery such as bracelets, necklaces, brooches, cameos and pendants. [8] [10] After the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s love of jewellery was less ...

4. Engraved gem - Wikipedia

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   References to antique gems and intaglios in a jewellery context will almost always mean carved gems; when referring to monumental sculpture, the term counter-relief, meaning the same as intaglio, is more likely to be used. Vessels like the Cup of the Ptolemies and heads or figures carved in the round are also known as hardstone carvings.

5. Cameo (carving) - Wikipedia

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   The majority of modern agate cameos are carved with the aid of the ultrasonic mill. This is a process where multiple copies of a master design can be produced very quickly by pressing a master die onto the agate cameo blank. A film of diamond slurry is used to aid cutting and the die vibrates ultrasonically in a vertical motion.

6. List of jewellery types - Wikipedia

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   Medical alert jewelry; Membership pin; Military dog tags; Pledge pins; Prayer jewelry Japa malas; Prayer beads; Prayer rope; Rosary beads; Puzzle jewelry. Puzzle ring; Signet ring; Thumb ring; Gemstone Jewelry

7. Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) - Wikipedia

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   A portrait diamond is set at either end of this egg, the one at the base covering the date "1907". The monogram was lost. The egg is approximately 7.7 cm in height. The egg opened to reveal a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds which was lost, leaving an impression on the satin lining.