The Metropolitan Museum of Art Earrings*Masonic Symbols Drop Earrings

These Earrings Adapt Select Details On An Enameled Copper Pendant With Masonic Symbols (1758) In The Met Collection. Emblems Abound Across The Beguiling Adornment, Possibly British. Having Developed Originally Out Of Craft Guilds, Freemasonry Often Adopted Symbols Of The Crafts—The Architect’S Square For Virtue; Fluted Columns, Evocative Of King Solomon’S Temple; The Rusticated Arch, Referring To The Arch Of Heaven; And A Mason’S Level, Representing Equality, Among Many Others—In Addition To Celestial, Religious, And Heraldic Devices. Such Jewelry Was An Important Component Of Masonic Regalia.