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Ch. 32: Arts and Crafts Jewelry

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CHAPTER XXXII
JEWELRY IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
T HE sequence to the cutting of a gem is generally mounting and setting it, unless it is merely perforated and strung as a bead or hung as a pendant. Mounting and setting is the trade of the goldsmith or jeweller, and whether his goods are artistic or inartistic de­pends to a great degree upon the discrimination of buyers. There is almost as much variation in the metallic environment of gems as there is in architecture, and the designing and execution of the jeweller range from meritorious to atro­cious. To a great extent the metal mountings for gems are stamped out in dies or are other­wise machine-made, but no matter how deserving of praise the original design, the finished article, to the eye artistic, is " commercial." Within a few recent years the struggle to elevate art, in other directions than in the field of things con­sidered as exclusively its province, has invaded the domain of jewelry, and some patient work-
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