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Silver filigree art Taj Mahal model, India 19-20 century

Replica of Taj Mahal model, India 19-20th century. Beautiful Silver filigree art

Beautiful Silver filigree art
Traditionally, Italian, Russian, Indian and French metalwork masters made delicate lace like jewellery metalwork art pieces from 1660 to the late 19th century. In fact, filigree has become a special branch of jewellery in modern times. However, historically it was a part of the ordinary work of a jeweler. The stunning jewelry of the Greek and Etruscan filigree of the 6th to the 3rd centuries BC preserved in the Louvre and in the British Museum. Italian and European silver from seventeen-twenty century is mostly silver artworks of precious and rare unique silver filigree works.

Silver filigree art Taj Mahal model, India 19-20 century

Detail of Taj Mahal model, India 19-20 century. Silver filigree art

Italian antique silverware represented by the leading engineering companies, including Roman jeweler Vincenzo Bailey, one of Baroque masters belonging to the eighteenth century. The museum of the Hermitage at Saint Petersburg has an amazingly rich collection of Scythian jewelry from the tombs of the Crimea. Many bracelets and necklaces in that collection – made of twisted wire. And some, in as many as seven rows of plaiting, with clasps in the shape of heads of animals. Besides, silver filigree art pieces from UK, France and Russia are among the most prestigious fashion houses of the twentieth century, including Bulgari, Buccellati and Tiffany.

Silver filigree art

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