Minoan Annular Earrings
Minoan Annular Earrings
Cast to Order (Ships in 2-3 weeks)
These Minoan-style earrings borrow from a roughly 5000-year-old bronze hoop earring design housed at the Met Museum.
I've taken this 2nd millennium BC crescent moon and adapted it to a dangling hoop design. It is about 1.5" tall, including a French hook, and cast in your choice of metal.
This item is created by lost wax casting a 3D-printed mold, and it is manufactured and hand-finished in the United States.
SKU:E-Minoan24.BRS
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Metals
We source our metals in a manner thats eco-friendly and sustainable. From domestic U.S. sources where possible and from certified DRC-Conflict Free mines where impracticle. All finishes are nickel free excepting 14k whiite gold, which is plated with rhodium in order to prevent reaction.
Bronze Annular Earring
200 BC - 100 BC
Greece, Europe.
Minoan
2nd millennium BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
Bronze hoop earring.
Image :The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artifacts ↑↓ Reimagined
Manifesting History
My process starts with curating museum collections to find interesting pieces of jewelry and art to recreate.
I digitalize original pieces into exact 3d models. My careful replicas are then 3d printed in wax.
One Ring at a Time
I use lost wax casting in order to fabricate a ring in metal. It's a technique with a history dating back at least 6500 years. All items are cast in precious metal, stamped and hand-finished here in the USA.
Brass and silver pieces are usually stocked and ship in 1-3 days.
Gold jewelry is usually cast to order and ships in 2-3 weeks.
They are beautifully crafted!
They arrived just as pictured.