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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Italian
Title:Pair of night and day earrings with heads of women
Date Made:ca. 1840-1860
Type:Adornment
Materials:Gold and dark red/brown stone (probably jasper)
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Florence
Measurements:overall: 2 1/4 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.; 5.715 x 1.4288 x 1.27 cm
Narrative Inscription:  None
Accession Number:  MH 1948.1.10a,b.I(b).J
Credit Line:Gift of Henrietta Franchois Fitzmaurice (Class of 1896) in memory of Esther C. Fitzmaurice and Sarah A. Start (Class of 1852)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
Each earring is composed of a round/oval piece of red stone with a relief head of a woman, set in gold and connected to the ear-wire. Hanging from the wire is an elongated lozenge-shaped pendant of red stone, also set in gold and carved in relief with the bust of a woman and ornamental leaves above and below.

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