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Not currently on display at the V&A

Earring

ca.1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Earring
  • Earring
Materials and techniques
Micromosaic, malachite and gold beading
Brief description
Earrings with peasants, Rome. Micromosaic, malachite and gold, 1825-50.
Physical description
Pair of earrings composed of circular malachite plaques bordered with gold beading and set with circular micromosaics one depicting a bust of a peasant man and the other a bust of a peasant woman.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 2.1cm
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Betty Roberts, Los Angeles, 1974.
Summary
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Gabriel, Jeanette Hanisee with contributions by Anna Maria Massinelli and essays by Judy Rudoe and Massimo Alfieri. Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. in association with The Gilbert Collection, 2000. 310 p., ill. Cat. no. 174, p. 238. ISBN 0856675113.
Other numbers
  • MM 181 - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • MM 297 - Arthur Gilbert Number
Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.146:1-2008

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Record createdJune 26, 2008
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