Publication Date
1850
Publication Place
Turkestan (made) -
Subject
Jewellery Metalwork
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Overall length: 55cm, Height: 16cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
736-1900
Record ID
736-1900
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1850
Notes
This piece of jewellery was described as a Turkoman breast ornament ( chanjuk ) when it was acquired by the Museum in 1900. The three hooks at the top suggest that it is more likely to be a head ornament. It is not typical of Turkoman jewellery and may have been imported from somewhere else, possibly from the Ottoman Empire where such head ornaments were more common. It was acquired in Turkistan, with other pieces of Turkoman jewellery, in 1884-5, during an Anglo-Russian conference to define the north-west frontier of Afghanistan, and was given to the Museum in 1900.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Sheet silver with applied filigree and repoussé, set with carnelian. Silver Carnelian Filigree Repoussé
Fiziksel açıklama
A complex head ornament, consisting of three drop-shaped hooks linked by chains. The hooks are made from sheet silver decorated with applied filigree. In the centre is a flat semi-circular pendant decorated with applied filigree in the same way as the hooks and set with a rectangular red paste in a toothed mount. The hooks are each linked to each other by two loop-in-loop chains, of different lengths, so that they hang down in swags when worn. Numerous flat triangular pendants, each stamped with a pattern of dots, hang from each of the chains and the lower edge of the central pendant.
