An antique gold brooch by Giacinto Melillo
Naples, circa 1870
comprising of a gold fibula style brooch fitting, centred with a cherub playing pan pipes, his wings decorated with delicate twisted wirework, a Herculean knot to his breast, his hair comprising of the finest gold granulation.
Length: 3.7cm
Giacinto Melillo (1846-1915) took over the management of Alessandro Castellani’s workshop in Naples in 1870. Clearly a prodigious student, at the age of nineteen Melillo had directed a goldsmithing school and by the age of twenty four he was running a workshop. Between 1870 and 1900, Melillo exhibited his work at fifteen international exhibitions, winning gold medals at five of them.
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