COW (Chat Of the Week): September 24-30- Examples of Victorian Etruscan Jewelry

The detailed elements of typical Etruscan Revival style jewelry (in the case of the following pieces, all Victorian) include the raised applied gold work including fine beading, twisted wire work, and scalloped and straight line raised elements.

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Two other important terms come to mind when discussing Etruscan jewelry, Cannetille, and Granulation. Cannetille describes a type of metal ornamentation using thin wires to make a filigree pattern, often in tightly coiled spirals or rosettes, used in the early nineteenth century. Named after the type of embroidery made with fine twisted gold or silver thread. It is done using thin wires to make a filigree pattern. Used primarily in England in the early nineteenth century. Granulation is the art of applying minute metal beads (or GRAINS), to the surface of the jewelry. "soldering small spherical drops of gold on to a backing". Granules of gold were presumably made by melting the metal and pouring it slowly into cold water, the droplets afterwards being sorted for size, probably by sieving, or by cutting short lengths of wire and heating them until a drop formed". (H.W. Hodges, Artifacts P.95 London. 1966.)

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