Characterization of Castellani nineteenth-century gold jewellery by in situ micro-XRF spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: The material characterization of nineteenth-century artifacts is of great interest, due both to the breakthrough technological advances and to the unprecedented spread of forgeries of antiquities which took place in that period. However, this type of artifacts has been largely overlooked in the past. In this paper we present the compositional analysis of gold jewels by the Castellani, one of the most important families of goldsmiths in nineteenth-century Europe. The use of a portable micro-XRF spectrometer, specifically developed for jewellery analysis at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (Seville), allowed us to analyse, in a completely non-invasive way, the alloys, joining techniques and surface treatments of the jewels of the Castellani collection at the National Etruscan Museum of Vi

SUBMITTER: Manca R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9098562 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature