المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1850
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Jewellery Africa Metalwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Diameter: 7cm, Height: 0.5cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
295-1904
رقم السجل
295-1904
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1850
ملاحظات
Bracelets were part of traditional costume in most Islamic cultures, and were always originally worn in matching pairs. Silver ones like this, either solid or hollow, are typical of the traditional jewellery worn by the nomadic peoples of the Sahara. The polyhedral ends, made from a cube with the corners cut off, are often found on earrings as well as bracelets, and are one of the most distinctive aspects of the jewellery worn on the southern edges of the Sahara, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. This example was described as âModern Egyptianâ when it was acquired by the Museum in 1904. The details of the decoration show that it comes from Nubia, the region overlapping the south of Egypt and northern Sudan.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Cast silver with applied filigree Silver Incising Filigree
Fiziksel açıklama
Heavy silver penannular bracelet of circular section with a cube, with truncated corners, as a terminal at each end. The three outside facets of each terminal are decorated with a lozenge of incised lines with a lobed ring in the centre, and the body of the bracelet has sections of chased and incised decoration separated by incised lines. There are three filigree lozenges applied to the outer edge, each containing a quatrefoil on which rests a large flattened knob, with a smaller flattened disc on each side in the two extreme corners of the lozenge. There is a small collar of three twisted wires between the terminal and the rest of the bracelet.