Pair of "Vauxhall" glass earrings, faceted dark red glass beads in the shape of a lacewing or moth, metal ear wire fasteners.
earrings (jewelry)
glass (material)
EARRING
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
479
Unknown
1 1/8 x 11/16 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.3052.1-2
A similar lacewing or moth brooch is illustrated in Bury, Shirley, "Jewellery, 1789-1910" v. 1 (1991): Plate 202, 371, 375. For more information on jet jewelry and imitations see Bury, Shirley, "Jewellery, 1789-1910" v. 2 (1991): 657-709; Cooper, Diana and Norman Battershill, "Victorian Sentimental Jewellery," (1972): 19-30; Dawes, Ginny Reddington and Corinne Davidov, "Victorian Jewelry: Unexplored Treasures," (1991): 125-130; Fales, Martha Gandy, "Jewelry in America, 1600-1900," (1995): 125-126, 254-256; Phillips, Clare, "Jewels and Jewelry," (2000): 94-95. For more information on the Codman estate see the entire issue of "Old Time New England" 71, no. 258 (1981).
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