المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1850
مكان النشر
Armenia (made) -
الموضوع
Jewellery Metalwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Overall length: 23cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
1414-1873
رقم السجل
1414-1873
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1850
ملاحظات
Pieces of jewellery like this, with S-shaped elements strung closely together to make a choker, are part of the traditional costume in many places, from Algeria to Armenia. This particular one is most likely to be Armenian, as it was described when it was acquired. In North Africa these necklaces usually have long elaborate crescentic pendants, and in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean they tend to have pendants made from coins, or sheet silver shapes. The hollow stamped pendants on this piece, shaped like ears of corn, but often fish-shaped, are typical of the necklaces worn in eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus. Necklaces in that region often have a prominent central plaque, sometimes set with a coloured paste, but this is a simpler form. These were worn across the forehead, as well as round the neck. It was bought for ten shillings at the International Exhibition, London, 1872.
İlişki
International Exhibition, 1872
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Stamped hollow silver elements on a band of red cloth Silver Ribbon Moulding
Fiziksel açıklama
38 S-shaped hollow silver slides and two shell-shaped terminals strung on a band of plaited red cloth. There is a loop at the bottom of each slide, from which hangs a hollow pendant shaped like an ear of corn, with a ring separating it from the slide. Six of the pendants have a further loop at their bottom.