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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 392931, member: 2844&quot;]This is traditional Thai filigree, pretending to be antique. Maybe &#039;antique&#039; is used as the name of the style.</p><p>The style is absolutely Thai, this model is often called stupa, after the Buddhist reliquary buildings. I am sure the Thai have a different name for it.</p><p>A lot of stupa jewellery dates from the 1940s and 50s, which doesn&#039;t mean this one does.</p><p>Maybe [USER=6974]@AuDragon[/USER] will be kind enough to ask his Thai wife if she can tell us more about it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Filigree is made from the western tips of Europe and North Africa to the eastern tip of Asia. And in the Americas, especially those parts once colonized by Spain and Portugal.</p><p>There is a custom in the trade of calling all filigree jewellery Portuguese, which makes true identification very difficult. The Portuguese make beautiful filigree, some of the most beautiful in the world, but it is very different from this style.</p><p>This is traditional Portuguese filigree, a classic Viana heart, which is traditionally worn with the regional dress of northern Portugal:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Ff%2Ff4%2FCoracao_de_filigrana.jpg%2F220px-Coracao_de_filigrana.jpg&amp;sp=dd8f433b6c1623d3455319a8f0e60b88" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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