Featured Costume jewelry - Necklace & earring set - When & what style?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by bercrystal, Mar 25, 2021.

  1. bercrystal

    bercrystal Well-Known Member

    I thought this set was unusual but kind of cool. :happy:

    The beads & inserts in the medallions seem to be plastic.

    The necklace is 13 5/8" from the clasp to the bottom chain & the 3 medallions are 1 11/16" across. The clip earrings are 1" across.

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    Thanks for any & all advice or opinins!! :happy::happy: :kiss::kiss:
     
  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Roughly archeological revival. No idea whodunnit, but Art is a contender. It's a 1950s (from the clasp) redo of 1870s does Roman. Or something like that.
     
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  3. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I would have said more Egyptian Revival in feeling. The design does not look Greek, Etruscan or Roman to me. Not that it's authentic Egyptian, but the combo of turquoise & lapis is very Egyptian.
     
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  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    OTOH the swoopy chains and medallions don't read Egyptian to me. The Victorians mashed things up whenever they felt like it, and later costume jewelry makers followed suit.
     
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  5. bercrystal

    bercrystal Well-Known Member

  6. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    No idea, but I particularly like the colours in the earrings.
    Do you think they are a set or a marriage as they look slightly different to the necklace.
    To my uneducated eye, a bit like my daughter, the necklace in particular is trying to look older than it is?
     
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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    The earrings look like they're 1980s, so no question it's a marriage. The necklace, long form is 1950s does 1920s doing a take on the 1870s interpretation of the Egyptian/Greco-Roman era. Or close enough. If you can follow that.
     
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  8. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Those clip earrings are very like the D'Orlan ones we had recently.
     
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  9. bercrystal

    bercrystal Well-Known Member

    Thanks @KSW @evelyb30 @Ownedbybear !! :kiss::kiss:

    I am not sure if they are a marriage or not but the back construction seems to be very similar & the color of the beads is the same as the beads on the chains. Regardless they will go out the door together. :p:p

    I did take a look at some of the d'Orlan earrings but the back construction is totally different. :happy:
     
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