المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1860
مكان النشر
Syria (made) -
الموضوع
Jewellery Metalwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Length: 9cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
1548-1873
رقم السجل
1548-1873
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1860
ملاحظات
This pendant was described as a âbutton for the cloakâ when it was bought for the Museum at the International Exhibition, London, in 1872, for three shillings and six pence. The word zir simply means button in Arabic. Although the use of silver buttons was discouraged by Islamic tradition, which forbade men from wearing precious metals as ornament, the use of silver buttons in the Syrian region was clearly widespread in the 19th century, as several examples in the V&A collections demonstrate.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Silver filigree set with a turquoise paste Silver Paste Filigree
Fiziksel açıklama
Spherical silver filigree button with a short length of doubled loop-in-loop chain attached to its shank. The button is decorated with granules and has a turquoise paste in a high cylindrical mount on its top.
