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Bracelet (generic title)

Title	Bracelet (generic title)
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1860
Publication Place	Syria (made) -
Subject	Jewellery Metalwork
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Lying down length: 7.5cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	1542-1873
Record ID	1542-1873
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1860
Notes	Bracelets were part of traditional costume throughout the Ottoman Empire, and were always originally worn in matching pairs. Tribal peoples, such as the Bedouin, usually wore stiff circular or penannular bracelets. Flexible bracelets, like this one, were commoner among urban women. This pattern, with hollow domes forming a kind of flexible chain, was popular throughout the Syrian region. Bracelets where the domes are linked by stiff rods, as here, were a speciality of Palestine. This example was acquired as an example of typical Syrian traditional jewellery, for five shillings and sixpence the pair, at the International Exhibition, London, 1872, when its name was recorded as â shalmi hirluch â.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Silver-plated metal set with red and green glass Plated Glass
Fiziksel açıklama	Flexible silver-plated bracelet with pin fastening. The bracelet itself consists of sets of hollow domes with flat backs and two rings at either side. These are threaded, four at a time, on 11 vertical rods to form a flexible band. At each end a rectangular terminal plate, decorated with two pastes either side of a plain dome, is attached to the final rod by four loops. One terminal has two red pastes, and the other, one green and one black. The terminal plates are fastened together, to close the bracelet, by a pin made from a doubled length of wire, which is prevented from falling out by a bar inside the last loop.
Üretim	Shalmi Hirluch

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Bracelet (generic title)

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1860

Publication Place Syria (made) -

Subject Jewellery Metalwork

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Lying down length: 7.5cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 1542-1873

Record ID 1542-1873

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1860

Notes Bracelets were part of traditional costume throughout the Ottoman Empire, and were always originally worn in matching pairs. Tribal peoples, such as the Bedouin, usually wore stiff circular or penannular bracelets. Flexible bracelets, like this one, were commoner among urban women. This pattern, with hollow domes forming a kind of flexible chain, was popular throughout the Syrian region. Bracelets where the domes are linked by stiff rods, as here, were a speciality of Palestine. This example was acquired as an example of typical Syrian traditional jewellery, for five shillings and sixpence the pair, at the International Exhibition, London, 1872, when its name was recorded as â shalmi hirluch â.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Silver-plated metal set with red and green glass Plated Glass

Fiziksel açıklama Flexible silver-plated bracelet with pin fastening. The bracelet itself consists of sets of hollow domes with flat backs and two rings at either side. These are threaded, four at a time, on 11 vertical rods to form a flexible band. At each end a rectangular terminal plate, decorated with two pastes either side of a plain dome, is attached to the final rod by four loops. One terminal has two red pastes, and the other, one green and one black. The terminal plates are fastened together, to close the bracelet, by a pin made from a doubled length of wire, which is prevented from falling out by a bar inside the last loop.

Üretim Shalmi Hirluch