CODE: 80056443

Stud earrings reinterpreting EllenMaurice's magnificent jewelry in the 1597 portrait of her by the Flemish painter Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1561–1635/36), which is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The MET). The Welsh heiress stands confidently wearing a very stunning gown adorned with sparkling pearls – the pearl was known as the 'queen of precious stones' in the Elizabethan era.

Gheeraerts, the pre-eminent Court painter of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, was highly regarded for the masterful way in which he rendered both sumptuous fabrics and glittering jewellery.

14K gold plating

Cultured freshwater pearls

Glass

For pierced ears, with surgical steel clasp

Diam. 2.2 cm

Clean with a damp cloth and dry with a soft, clean cloth.

The House of Tudor or Tudor dynasty was a royal house of Welsh origin, descended from Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last "King of the Britons", who ruled the Kingdom of England and its possessions, including their ancestral Wales and the Lords Realm of Ireland, later Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 to 1603.