Intaglio, cameo and diamond bangle| Bracciale in cammei, intagli e diamanti 1890

This rare bangle, decorated with six carnelian intaglios alternated to four oval shaped cameo depicting Eros the god of Love as a young boy with an eagle, a dolphins, an horse and a torch enhanced with old mine-cut diamond all set respectively in oval and rectangular frames embellished with circle motifs, inner bangle circumference approximately 180mm, gross weight 31.6grams.1890.

(Questo raro bracciale, decorato con sei intagli in corniola alternati a quattro cammei ovali raffiguranti Eros, il dio dell'amore, nelle vesti di un giovane ragazzo con un'aquila, un delfino, un cavallo e una torcia, impreziositi con diamanti di vecchio taglio e incastonati in cornici ovali e rettangolari impreziosite da motivi circolari, circonferenza interna del bracciale 180mm approssimativamente, peso grammi 31.6. 1890)

Archaeological jewelry was extremely popular in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, and it was actively collected at the highest levels of society. The jewelry produced by renowned firms such as for example Castellani represented one of the example of the nineteenth century’s interest in historical styles and study for the Antiques. 

Castellani family was a unique team of goldsmiths, collectors and antique dealers who constituted a "dynasty" in Rome, Iin the 19th and 20th centuries they were able to reproduced the techniques used by the Etruscan, Roman and Byzantine for granulation and filigree to reinterpreted ancient motifs and create their unique jewels. Castellani family preserved and donated to the Italian State the jewels they created and collected during their century-long activity and these jewels are now exhibited in the National Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, the Capitoline Museums and the Artistic-Industrial Museum of Rome and at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican in the Museum of the Treasury of the Basilica.

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