To: Artistic Romantics
From: Gift Muse
Date: Happy Hearts Day
Subject: From The Heart

Show your love your admiration is timeless. Celebrate the fine craftsmanship of the Renaissance with the Met Museum Niello Openwork Heart Pendant. Crafted of 14K gold overlay, the Museum’s pendant is based on a design for an engraved niello ornament from a Renaissance book in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Niello work, developed at least two thousand years ago, is a highly intricate technique of decorating the surface of a metal object. Because of the method’s inherent danger for craftspeople, there are few contemporary versions of niello work.

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