Golden Ornament

This is an ornament made from an Avon earring. I had quite a huge collection of them, so I made ornaments out of them--enough for a whole... more

by Sylvia Thornton

Title

Golden Ornament

Artist

Sylvia Thornton

Medium

Photograph - Photograph Digital

Description

This is an ornament made from an Avon earring. I had quite a huge collection of them, so I made ornaments out of them--enough for a whole tree!
From Wikipedia:
Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree. Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members. Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation.

Santa Claus is a commonly used figure. Candy canes, fruit, animals, snowmen, angels and snowflake imagery are also popular choices.

Lucretia P. Hale's story "The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree"[1] offers a short catalog of the sorts of ornaments used in the 1870s:

There was every kind of gilt hanging-thing, from gilt pea-pods to butterflies on springs. There were shining flags and lanterns, and bird-cages, and nests with birds sitting on them, baskets of fruit, gilt apples, and bunches of grapes.

The modern-day mold-blown colored glass Christmas ornament was originally invented in the small German town of Lauscha in the mid-19th century.

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December 5th, 2013