Antique gold medal with the face of Ovid, one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature 1890
Unknown artist
Gold
€ 675
Adin Fine Antique Jewellery
- About the artwork
Antique jewelry object group
pendant
Condition
very good condition
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Country of origin
unknown
Style
Late-Victorian - Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. The Victorian era is known for its eclectic revival and interpretation of historic styles and the introduction of cross-cultural influences from the middle east and Asia in furniture, fittings, and Interior decoration.
Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a regrettable excess of ornament. The Arts and Crafts movement, the aesthetic movement, Anglo-Japanese style, and Art Nouveau style have their beginnings in the late Victorian era.
See also: late-Victorian
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Style specifics
The Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period - Experts divide the reign of Queen Victoria, also called The Victorian era (1837-1901) into three periods of about twenty years each; The Romantic Victorian Period (1837 - 1860), The Grand Victorian Period(1860 - 1880), and the Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period (1880 - 1901).
We consider this to be of The Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period.
Jewelry of this period is changing back from heavy to more smaller, romantic pieces with often whimsical motifs. Jewelers using diamonds and bright gemstones in elaborated and fine feminine pieces.
Period
ca. 1890
Events & facts of this era, poetry of this era, fashion of this era.
Source of inspiration
Latin literature
Theme
Ovidius or Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the threecanonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus banished him to a remote province on the BlackSea, where he remained a decade until his death.
Material
18K bi-color (yellow and red) gold (touchstone tested)
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Hallmarks
No trace.
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Dimensions
height 3,88 cm (1,53 inch)
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Weight
4,30 gram (2,76 dwt)
Adin Reference Nº
22286-0143
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