Scrolls: Also known as “butterfly' clasps, they are a component used in earrings. They attach the earring to the ear by being slid down the post that pierces the ear.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves at Qumran at the Dead Sea. The world's lowest road, Highway 90, runs along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea at 393 m below sea level.
The patterns often form scrolls or rosettes in tightly coiled wire. The application was popularized the 1900s, mainly in India and England, due to limited gold supply. Cannetile permitted a small amount of gold to be drawn a long way.
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Motifs included tendrils, scrolls, coils, beehives and spider-like rosette ornaments. Jewelry featuring cannetille was often embellished with granulation and thinly stamped metals.
Filigree: Thin strands of wire are intricately interlaced or bent into rosettes, spirals, scrolls or vines. The wire is typically gold or silver, and may be plain, twisted, or plaited. There are two major styles of filigree.
Rings were raised rectangular, domes or scrolls. Gemstone bands were also popular. Prong setting, shield, heart, marquise, surrounded by diamonds were crafted in alloys of gold.
After the war, in the 1940's large stones set in scrolls ofgold became popular, an exgerated deco style. Amethyst,citrines and aquamarine were often set as a center piece with small rubies,sapphires and diamonds sprinkled around the setting.
Butterflies
Also known as scrolls, these are components that attach to the back of earposts to hold the earring in position on the ear lobe
Button Earrings
Also known as studs, buttons are flat earrings that sit on the earlobe ...
Half-Pearls: Parts of pearls and seed pearls that were popular in making designs of flowers and scrolls starting about 1890, sometimes mingled with coloured gemstones. Popular for many decades and not always an aid for circa dating.
Filigree - Thin wire strands intricately interlaced or fashioned into rosettes, scrolls, vines or spirals. Wire is often gold or silver, plain, twisted, or braided.
Celtic rings, for example, have very intricate patterns of knots, spirals, chevrons and scrolls with each carrying it's own meaning.
dated 1612, are known (in the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Morgan Collection) of one such medallion depicting Maximilian, Archduke of Austria (1558-1620); the medals are set in circular frame of pierced enamelled scrolls with ...
look below reveals caves, tree branches, and human figures engaged in various labors. The carving—one of several such large scale carvings—has the fine detail and styling found in some of the museum’s paintings and hanging scrolls.
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