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Jewellery. 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.
Roman jewelry. A pair of crotalia earrings from the Roman Empire. Ancient Roman jewelry was characterized by an interest in colored gemstones and glass, in contrast with their Greek predecessors who focused primarily on the production of high-quality metalwork by practiced artisans. [1] Extensive control of Mediterranean territories provided an ...
Medieval jewelry. Germanic fibulae, early 5th century. The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in gold and ronde bosse enamel, about 1400. Gold belt end and buckle, c. 600, Avar version of Byzantine style. The Middle Ages was a period that spanned approximately 1000 years and is normally restricted to Europe and the Byzantine Empire.
Granulation is a jewellery manufacturing technique whereby a surface is covered in spherules or granules of precious metal. The technique is thought to have its origins in Sumer about 5,000 years ago. This technique then spread to southern Europe during the orientalizing period, also through the role of Phoenicians, who had founded colonies in ...
Flint jewelry was known in the prehistoric, protodynastic, and early dynastic periods of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians skillfully made bracelets [1][2] and armlets [3][4] out of flint. The flint came from locations that include Giza and Upper Egypt. [5] The exact technique used to form rings is not known, but there are several theories based ...
Jewellery design. Jewellery design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery. It is one of civilization's earliest forms of decoration, dating back at least 7,000 years to the oldest-known human societies in Indus Valley Civilization, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The art has taken many forms throughout the centuries, from the ...
Three-layered sardonyx cameo, Roman artwork, c. 14 –20 AD. Cameo (/ ˈkæmioʊ /) is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. [1] Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo ...
Cloisonné first developed in the jewellery of the ancient Near East, and the earliest enamel all used the cloisonné technique, placing the enamel within small cells with gold walls. This had been used as a technique to hold pieces of stone and gems tightly in place since the 3rd millennium BC, for example in Mesopotamia , and then Egypt.