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The neoclassical period hosted several styles which are loosely related by the philosophical ideas of The Enlightenment and general shapes used in jewelry.
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Neoclassical: New designs inspired by artistic elements from classical antiquity, such as urns, garlands, greek key, palmette.
Chinoiserie, neoclassical or rococo elements in the design, for example, may help to suggest a likely date of manufacture when these were fashionable.
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In addition to diamond tiaras, rings, and brooches of naturalistic design, there was less costly jewelry in the neoclassical style inspired by originals excavated at Pompeii, and in revivals of Gothic, Renaissance, ...
Victorian era fashion and design blended an eclectic array of stylistic motifs such as Elizabethan, Classical and Gothic revival, Greco-Roman, Neoclassical, Orientalism, Rococo and Romanticism, ...
 See also: Jewel, Jewelry, Antique, Stone, Victorian
  
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