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Gold, moonstone and enamel 'amorino' brooch, Carlo Giuliano, circa 1895
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Carlo Giuliano
Designed as a mistletoe sprig, the leaves applied with translucent green enamel, the berry represented by the carved moonstone head of an amorino, signed C.G.
Exhibited
Artists' Jewellery, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, Warski, London, March 1989, no. 60 and Asprey, New York, October 1989, no. 68.
Literature
Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey C. Munn, Artists' Jewellery, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, color pl. 2.
Geoffrey C. Munn, The Triumph of Love, p. 66.
Catalogue Note
While mistletoe was a symbol of fertility in the Celtic tradition, to the Victorians it symbolized a kiss. See Munn, The Triumph of Love, p. 66.