Earrings
These earrings or pendants have been fabricated with filigree openwork, cloisonné enamel, and beaded granulation, and resemble similar jewels from the Fatimid Period (909–1171). Yet these pieces differ from most well-known Fatimid crescent (hilal) shaped ornaments in that they bear bulbous filigree hemispheres and cloisonné enamel on both rather than just one side. The style of the enamel is also more similar to works produced in eastern Slavic Kievan Rus' (ca. 860–1240) than to any known surviving Fatimid examples.
Artwork Details
- Title: Earrings
- Date: 11th–12th century
- Geography: Attributed to possibly Syria
- Medium: Gold; filigree and cloisonné enamel
- Dimensions: H. 1 in. (2.5 cm)
W. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
D. 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
Wt. 0.2 oz. (5.8 g) - Classification: Jewelry
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1979
- Object Number: 1979.278.1a, b
- Curatorial Department: Islamic Art
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