I think I've finally figured it out! I've finally narrowed down the type of jewelry I love the most!
The winner is: Etruscan jewelry.
I found these words on the development of this type of jewelry work:
"During the latter part of the Queen Victoria's reign, archaeological discoveries greatly influenced jewelry design. One such discovery was of Etruscan jewelry. These pieces had fine gold granulation, which the modern jeweler could not reproduce. It was the Italian jeweler Castellini who found a remote village in the mountains of northern Italy where the ancient art of gold granulation had been passed down for generations. Castellini took the process back to Rome and made his fortune reproducing Etruscan jewelry."
If my readings are correct, the Etruscan society (modern day Tuscany) was at it's peak from 700BC-300BC. This style of jewelry was revived, like the article above states, in Queen Victoria's reign.
I love this stuff! Take a gander. These are images I got from the internet; they are not part of the Cherche collection. I will work on that, though.
But who am I kidding when I say that this is my favorite style? We all know I could never really narrow that down; I love it all.
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