المؤلف
Unknown (made)
تاريخ النشر
1818
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Jewellery Africa Metalwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Plaque width: 9.5cm, Length: 14.5cm
(with pendant)
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
940-1884
رقم السجل
940-1884
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1818
ملاحظات
Ornament for a womanâs headband, decorative plaque with pendant chain, silver-gilt with traces of cloisonné enamel and striated corals, inscribed in Arabic and dated 1233 AH (1818 AD), Cairo, Egypt.
نص عينة
Note base of the plaque
İlişki
Paris International Exhibition, 1878 Gaston De Saint-Maurice
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Cast silver-gilt decorated with green cloisonné enamel and set with striated corals, with red glass beads Coral Glass Silver-Gilt Openwork Cloisonne
Fiziksel açıklama
Flat silver-gilt plaque, slightly curved, with a chain pendant attached. The plaque is roughly triangular in shape with a flat base and a top in the form of a fleur de lys. It is decorated on the front with applied filigree motifs, some containing traces of green cloisonné enamel, and four striated corals in closed mounts. There is an Arabic inscription across the centre. There are five loops along the lower edge and a hole at the tip of each of the three points of the triangle. A pendant hangs from the hole on the extreme right. This consists of a filigree bead with a curved rosette, divided into eight lobes, at its base. There is a loop-in-loop chain hanging from each lobe of the rosette, with a pierced disc at its top, a larger perforated disc at its end, and a wire holding two red glass beads in its centre. Each of the discs also originally contained a red glass bead, but many of these are now missing. The whole pendant is attached to the main plaque by a short length of three loop-in-loop chains side by side, separated by two rings.