Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1850
Publication Place
Alexandria (made) -
Subject
Jewellery Metalwork Africa
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Overall length: 6cm, Of crescent width: 3.2cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
864-1873
Record ID
864-1873
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1850
Notes
This earring is typical of the kind of jewellery made for urban use in Egypt in the 19th century. While traditional village and nomadic jewellery was usually large and made of silver, urban jewellery was often made of gold or gilded silver in delicate filigree designs set with seed pearls and turquoise. Pieces like this were equally popular with Western tourists, who brought them home in large quantities.
Sample Text
'duriba fi Misr'Translation'Made in Misr'Note1) Makers's mark; Arabic, Translation'1277'NoteDate; Ottoman; On two of the right hand coins, Translation1255NoteDate; Ottoman; Left hand coin
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Silver-gilt filigree set with turquoise Silver-Gilt Turquoise Filigree
Parçalar
Earring, Earring
Fiziksel açıklama
Silver-gilt open filigree pendant for an earring. It consists of a curved rosette set with a central turquoise, now missing, from which hangs a flat crescent with a flat rosette hanging from its centre. There is a turquoise set in the centre of the rosette, and three more along the crescent. There are two hearts of sheet silver hanging upside down from the top rosette, one on either side, and two pendants, of two hearts each, hanging either side of the lower pendant. Three pendants, stamped like Ottoman coins with a tughra on one side and Arabic script and a date on the other, hang from the ends of the crescent and the lower rosette. Tughra on reverse of discs, on obverse an Arabic inscription 'made in Misr [Egypt]'. Date '1255' on the left hand disc, and '1277' on the other two.
Üslup
Ottoman
