Cameo and intaglio necklace | Collana in cammei e intagli 1890

Designed as a row of nine oval shaped pendants each decorated with an oval shaped agate intaglio depicting ladies profile as Cleopatra alternated to ten smaller ones of rectangular shape depicting mythological scene, all set respectively in oval and rectangular frames embellished with circle motifs and accented with foliate decorations , inner necklace circumference approximately 420mm, gross weight 99.3 grams.1890.

(Realizzato come una linea di nove pendenti di forma ovale decorati con intagli in agata di forma ovale raffiguranti profili di donne come Cleopatra, alternati a dieci pendenti più piccoli realizzati con scene mitologiche, tutti incastonati in cornici rispettivamente di forma ovale e rettangolare impreziosite da motivi circolari e decorazioni fogliacee, circonferenza interna della collana 420mm approssimativamente, peso 99.3 grammi. 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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