Curvy silver Boho hoops | “All the detail, drama, and swing of big pieces without the weight. Love them! “

A cross between Egyptian Revival and Art Nouveau, large but lightweight, these matte antiqued silver Boho hoops are really the perfect shape. And they have swing.

• Pendants are 1 3/4″ (45mm) long and 1 1/4″ (30mm) wide.
• Ear wires are hypoallergenic .925 sterling silver for sensitive ears.
• Also available in antiqued bronze with 14K gold fill ear wires.
• This design is only available in French loops.

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Why are Egyptian Revival and Art Nouveau overlapping styles? The archaeological digs in Egypt in that began in the late 1800s became a craze for all things Egyptian, and can be found in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau jewelry designs of the following decades, making ancient Egyptian-inspired jewelry reminiscent of both Deco and Nouveau aesthetics.

Read how one art critic of the time thought how excess in the Art Deco aesthetic “appealed to the aesthetically uninformed,” to the “vulgar” and “depraved” in this 2008 academic article “Art Deco Worlds in a Tomb: Reanimating Egypt in Modern(ist) Visual Culture” in the journal Staging Modernism.

Or you can just buy the earrings.