Publication Date
Between the seventh and eighth centuries
Publication Place
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Museum of Islamic Art
Subject
Gold wire with decoration welded on it.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 6.5 سم؛ العرض: 5.8 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
I. 2333
Record ID
object;ISL;de;Mus01;40;ar
Library Location
Museum of Islamic Art
Date
Between the seventh and eighth centuries
Notes
This openwork earring consists of a round gold plate tube and a decoration welded onto this tube consisting of a group of separate decorative materials that decorate only the lower part of the earring. On one side of it there is a plug for a hole. The empty section of the wire, decorated only with gold grains, was used to form a rose with two square fields attached to its sides. This small rosette consists of six simple circles united by a toothed frieze consisting of free grains. As for the two square fields, each has six circular elements, with two friezes of different widths filled with aligned circles. These individual elements are welded to each other and to the gold tube, ensuring good stability, yet the earring maintains an acceptable light weight. Women's jewelery jewelers in Egypt in the Umayyad and Abbasid eras used models from the Byzantine era, where the shapes were gradually developed. The geometry of this earring is consistent with the art of decoration in those days, and it was also used in other fields of art, such as architectural decoration, for example.
Sample Text
Annette Hagedorn “Single earring” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;de;Mus01;40;ar
