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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Italian, probably Florentine
Title:Pair of night and day earrings with birds and butterflies
Date Made:ca. 1850-1860
Type:Adornment
Materials:Jet, gold, glass and stone (micromosaic)
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Florence
Measurements:overall: 3 1/4 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.; 8.255 x 2.2225 x .635 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1948.1.9a,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 part connected to the ear-wire, and a drop-shaped pendant that hangs freely within a gold ornamental surround. The ornamental surround is decorated at the bottom with gold scroll-like shapes. In the upper part, a piece of jet is set into a gold border, and has a micromosaic of a butterfly facing right. In the lower part, a drop-shaped piece of jet has a micromosaic depicting a white bird (dove) perched on a spouting stump looking down in one case at a nest with two white eggs inside, in the other at two tiny nestlings.

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