Spanish Day and Night Magnifier Pendant Necklace

$110.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art jewelry inspired by The Met collection. The celestial motifs decorating this magnifier pendant celebrate a type of print called a broadside depicting 48 allegorical figures pertaining to the sun and the moon. The original, now in The Met collection, was printed about 1860–70 by Juan Llorens (Spanish, active ca. 1855–70), an active publisher of broadsides in Barcelona. Broadsides were issued by the thousands and sold on the street or in publishers' shops beginning in 16th-century Europe. These inexpensive…