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The Kalo Shop was the "leading maker" of Arts and Crafts movement silver in Chicago. [1] The shop and affiliated Kalo Arts and Crafts Community House , a practicing school and workshop noted for silver and jewelry in nearby Park Ridge, Illinois , were founded in 1900 by a group of six young women who had trained at the Art Institute of Chicago .
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Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...
Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery. [1] The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ...
Jens was known for his creative and contemporary take on traditional Scandinavian jewellery design. Some of his notable works include: "The One Ring", an 18kt gold ring prop for The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. [7] [4] The Jens Hansen Legacy Collection (formerly the 40th Anniversary Collection) [8]
The sword of state of Christian III was made in 1551 by Johann Siebe.It is made of gilded silver and decorated with enamel and table cut gemstones. Prior to the introduction of absolute monarchy, the sword was the first of the regalia presented to the king.
Much of the Swedish royal family's jewel collection originates from when Princess Joséphine of Leuchtenberg--granddaughter of Napoléon Bonaparte's first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais-- married the future Oscar I in 1823.
Antique jewelry of the period features step-cut stones prominently, and there is a market in producing new step-cut stones to repair antique jewelry or to reproduce it. The slender, rectangular baguette (from the French , resembling a loaf of bread) was and is the most common form of the step cut: today, it is most often used as an accent stone ...