Hattie Carnegie Enameled Cobra Earrings - Serpent Goddess Wadjet Gold Blue Turquoise Enamel Clip On - Vintage Egyptian authentic Revival - Uraeus

Vintage Hattie Carnegie Egyptian Revival Gold Cobra Goddess Wadjet Enameled Earrings.

The earrings are unsigned and measure 1" x 5/8".

The earrings have been well-maintained and cared for over the years. They are in excellent vintage condition.


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The Uraeus is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra (asp, serpent, or snake), used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.

The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet. She was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and who often was depicted as a cobra.

The pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra, and so it also was believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess. In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei. Wadjets existed long before the rise of this cult when they originated as the eye of Wadjet as cobra and are the name of the symbols also called the Eye of the Moon, Eye of Hathor, the Eye of Horus, and the Eye of Ra.

As the Uraeus was seen as a royal symbol, the deities Horus and Set were also depicted wearing the symbol on their crowns. In early ancient Egyptian mythology, Horus would have been the name given to any king as part of the many titles taken, being identified as the son of the goddess. According to the later mythology of Re, the first Uraeus was said to have been created by the goddess Isis, who formed it from the dust of the earth and the spittle of the then-current sun deity. In this version of the mythology, the Uraeus was the instrument with which Isis gained the throne of Egypt for Osiris. Isis is associated with and may be considered an aspect of Wadjet.



Hattie Carnegie:
Hattie Carnegie was born Henrietta Kanengeiser in Vienna, Austria, in 1889. She immigrated with her family to the United States when she was a teenager. She went to work for Macy's and at some point changed her name to Hattie Carnegie. “Carnegie” because she admired Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in America at the time. “Hattie” because that was her nickname when she worked in Macy's hat department or because she thought it sounded more “upscale” than “Henrietta.”

In 1909, she opened her first shop with her friend, Ruth Roth, a seamstress who made garments while Hattie designed hats. The shop was wildly successful and expanded into a chain of shops across the country. In 1918, Hattie founded Hattie Carnegie, Inc. for her full-scale clothing line, and in 1939, began offering “cocktail jewelry” (as costume jewelry was then known), brooches, necklaces, bracelets and earrings that put the finishing touches on Hattie's fashions. But her jewelry became popular on its own. Hollywood stars and New York socialites clamored after her jewelry and other American ladies followed along.



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