Greek Jewellery
Jewellery-making Techniques
from Antiquity to Recent Times


NOTE:1. Photographs and drawings have been taken from the following books:
  • D. Williams, J. Ogden, GREEK GOLD Jewellery of the Classical World,
    British Museum Press, London 1994: Figs 5,9,21,25,26,27,29,30 and Drawings 4,5.
  • Gold Jewelry Craft, Style and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis,
    T. Hackens, R. Winkes, Belgium 1983: Fig. 34, Drawing 3.
  • A. Ward, J. Cherry, C. Gere, B. Cartlidge The Ring from Antiquity to the Twentieth
    Century, Thames and Hudson, Fribourg 1981: Fig. 38, Drawing 1,7,8.
  • Archaologisce Bronzen. Antike Kunst Moderne Technik, Diettich Reimer Vetlag,
    Berlin 1985: Drawing 2
  • Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Εθνους, vol. 1, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens 1971: Fig. 8.
  • BYZANCE, Louvre, Paris 1993: Figs 31,35,36,37.
  • National Gallery Athens, Οι Πύλες του Μυστηρίου Θησαυροί της Ορθοδοξίας απο την
    Ελλάδα, Bastas-Plessas Publications, Athens 1994: Figs 32,33.
  • Popi Zora, Ελληνική Λαϊκή Τέχνη, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens l994. Figs 40-54.

    Fig. 53 Silver cartridge case with niello (savati) decoration. (Museum of Greek Folk Art, Londos Oeconomidis Collection). Fig. 54 Detail of the central plaque of a silver (cross) with niello (savati) decoration (Museum of Greek Folk Art).

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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  • Gold Jewelry. Craft, Style and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis, T. Hackens, A. Winkes, Belgium 1983
  • A. Ward, J. Cherry, C. Gere, B. Cartlidge, The Ring from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, Thames and Hudson, Fribourg 1981.
  • Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Εθνους, vols I to VIII, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens 1971,1974
  • BYZANCE, Louvre, Paris 1993
  • National Gallery Athens, Οι Πύλες του Μυστηρίου Θησαυροί της Ορθοδοξίας απο την Ελλάδα, Bastas-Plessas Publications, Athens 1994
  • Popi Zora, Ελληνική Λαϊκή Τέχνη, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens l994. Figs 45-63.
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