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| Keywords: French - Cannetille Ware Bracelet - Walters 572332 - Back.jpg During the period of peace after the Napoleonic Wars the sumptuous arts experienced rapid recovery and gold once again became more reasonable In England and France there emerged in the 1820s and early 1830s a taste for filigree jewelry known as cannetille work Why these countries with no previous history of filigree jewelry should suddenly adopt this taste remains somewhat a mystery It has been suggested that veterans of the Peninsular Wars returned from Portugal with examples of filigree jewelry for which that country was famous or that examples of filigree were arriving in western Europe as India was opened to commerce Although this example is described as French cannetille work it is actually Chinese made for the European market around 1840 - 1860 and not French cannetille between 1840 1860 gold cm 5 08 6 35 accession number 57 2332 77180 Mr George Harold Edgell date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs Jean Walters Delano Edgell date and mode of acquisition unknown Mr Henry Walters Edgell Manchester New Hampshire date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs Elizabeth Edgell February 9 1986 by gift from her husband Mr Henry Walters Edgell Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs Elizabeth Edgell 2010 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license Bracelets Jewelry of France Gold jewellery Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
