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Exquisite Antique Chinese

August 25th, 2008

Angie

Exquisite Antique Chinese

Antique 19th Old Agate Chinese Exquisite *Smoking Pipe*

$6.99

Quantity: 1

Material: Natural Agate

Weight: 16 g

Dimension: 77x12x12mm

Condition: good…

Exquisite Fabrics: Traditional Weaving and Embroidery Patterns in China

$249.67

For more than twenty-five hundred years the patterns of Chinese silk textiles captured the imaginations of their beholders. The woven and embroidered designs catalogued in Exquisite Fabrics combine consummate mechanical and technical skill with an aesthetic vision driven by the need to communicate the most important message of Chinese culture.Available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase, this book p…

A brief history of ancient jewelry

A chronological history of antiques jewelry goes back several years ago some 27,000 years to be precise, Namibia. This artistic expressions of man would have been cut in a piece of jewelry from a dry stick or piece of bone from a bird in an earring or a necklace. These pieces of antique jewelry are rare to obtain because of the nature of the materials used so as pendant bone Tunisia some 15,000 years.

Egyptian jewelry come much later around 4500 BC in the region of El-Badari where antique earrings, crowns, girdles and pins were found in silver and gold and their alloys with copper. The periods of the pharaohs, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen and the Golden times for antique jewelry.

Then came the period of industrious and technologically savvy archaeo around 4000 BC. They were highly developed people who used copper and various oxides and lost wax for making their jewelry. Some of the antique jewelry of the period is cast in brass plated with silver and 24k gold and protected by a layer of varnish! They had used the deck and there is exquisite antique "> antique earrings that period.

Jewelry Chinese 5000 years now. Antique jewelry have religious connotations, some of with a Buddhist background also pagan symbols like the phoenix and the dragon. Complex and large antique earrings were found this time in bronze silver and gold.

Some other classic examples of jewelry dating back to the Vikings around 800 AD and Russia, Victoria and French jewelry from the 17th century. Some of the most attractive pieces of earrings are the museum ancient Sumerian Earrings Lapis and Sterling Silver from 2500 BC, the Greek classic heart earrings with garnet and sterling silver beads from 450 BC and Celtic swirl earrings around 500 BC. Equally impressive is a set of earrings Fabergé, late 20th century and Crescent West African Earrings sterling silver gilt.