Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Ancient Greek Gold Earrings


Ancient Greek Gold Earrings 

 These were found in Cyprus. There was a fashion even an obsession with Griffins in the Archaic period here expressed as lions with griffin ears and serpent tails forming the spiral for inserting the earrings into a pierced ear or an already inserted loop? Or perhaps these are just lions depicted?

They are however quite exquisite! 


Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Mycenaean Gold Jewellery

This very modern looking piece is actually #mycenaeanjewellery

Note the contrast of the gold to darker material and the simple geometric shapes 


Yet Mycenaean Jewellery also includes pieces like this:





Simplicity and elegance appear before the classical era!