المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1860
مكان النشر
Syria (made) -
الموضوع
Jewellery Metalwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Maximum length: 3.4cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
1549-1873
رقم السجل
1549-1873
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1860
ملاحظات
Earrings, in a wide variety of designs, were worn by women throughout the Islamic world. This example was bought for three shillings and sixpence, for the pair, at the International Exhibition, London, 1872. The crescent shape is typical of Islamic earrings. This one would originally have had pendants hanging from the loops along the lower edge. It was described as having the name halak when it was acquired, which is a generic Arabic name for earrings.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Gilded copper filigree set with a blue glass bead Gilt Gold Gilt Filigree
Fiziksel açıklama
Gilt copper crescent earring. The wire is made of spiral grooved wire and is attached by a hinge at one end at right angles to the crescent and by a horizontal pin fastening at the other. There is a mount below each of the two attachments, one of which contains a blue glass bead. The crescent is made from a length of plain wire threaded with three open filigree beads alternating with two rosettes made from short tubes soldered side by side. There is a short tube of spiral wire soldered to the lower edge of each of the beads and rosettes which may have held a string of beads or some other kind of pendant.