{"id":16236,"date":"2014-02-21T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=16236"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T04:05:52","slug":"large-victorian-jet-earrings","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/shop\/large-victorian-jet-earrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Victorian Jet Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great pair of jet earrings which have been carved with classical ladies heads on them. They are large and impressive and were made circa 1880 in Whitby near where jet, which is fossilised wood, was sourced. The black mineraloid jet, the compressed remains of ancestors of the monkey-puzzle tree, is found in the cliffs and on the moors and has been used since the Bronze Age to make beads. The Romans are known to have mined it in the area. In Victorian times jet was brought to Whitby by pack pony to be made into decorative items. It was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-19th century when it was favoured for mourning jewellery by Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kate-moss-another-mag.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" class=\"right med-space-left med-space-below\" alt=\"kate-moss-another-mag\"\/>As worn by Kate Moss in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/our-world\/press\/another-2\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AnOther Magazine, Spring\/Summer 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great pair of jet earrings which have been carved with classical ladies heads on them. They are large and impressive and were made circa 1880 in Whitby near where jet, which is fossilised wood, was sourced. The black mineraloid jet, the compressed remains of ancestors of the monkey-puzzle tree, is found in the cliffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16237,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[5308],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"1":"product","6":"product_cat-uncategorised","7":"type-antique-earrings","8":"type-antique-small-drop-earrings","9":"period-victorian","10":"material-jet","11":"material-silver","12":"collection-macabre","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/16236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=16236"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=16236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}