I bought my significant other an Etruscan revival silver bracelet
for her birthday. I know she’ll love it either way, but I was hoping
to pin down a time frame and specific origin for the piece because
she is an antique jewelry nut.
I bought my significant other an Etruscan revival silver bracelet
for her birthday.
It’s not Etruscan revival. it’s standard filigree. Etruscans used
INFINITELY smaller balls and wires and joined them to the base by
granulation. They worked in electrum, which is a naturally occurring
alloy of gold and silver (~40%/60%), with trace amounts of copper
and other metals.
The picture you have is basic filigree in low-grade silver (800),
probably from central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
Afghanistan, etc.) The wires and balls are joined to the base with
powdered solder. Work like this is still being done today in many
countries. It will be interesting if some Orchidian has some info
regarding the jeweler’s stamp…:-)…!