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| ‘Corações’ Hearts
‘Opados’ (= bulging) – hallow and bulging, they were made with very thin plate and decorated with thin filigree strings or a granulated. They have love, floral or religious motifs. They can be flaming or the so called ‘Duplos’ (=double) because they have what appears to be another heart on top of the bigger one – they’re just the styling work of the flames. They were the ones more commonly used by Viana’s women.
‘Em Chapa’ (= plated) – they’re similar to the ‘Borboletas’ (=butterflies) but they’re always flaming.
The filigree hearts that nowadays appear quite often on the Viana’s women chest were not very used in ancient times – in part because of the large amount of workmanship hand, and because they were usually made of golden silver, a metal that is now used in almost all of the ones currently made.
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Virtual Book Museum of Tradicional Goldsmithery
Earrings Devotional miniatures of the ‘Santíssimo’ Crosses
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