Earring fragment

Description

Earring fragment - an incompletely preserved part of a traditional women’s silver ornament. The museum object is made of silver of 750 fineness. Its central section consists of a hollow, box-like element projecting outward on both sides. The surface bears ornamental decoration highlighted with niello. The remaining parts are made of thin silver wires shaped, interwoven, and joined by soldering. Five movable spiral-shaped pendants are attached to the lower section. The ear hook has not been preserved.
Earrings of this complex pendant type formed part of traditional women’s jewellery. The interwoven wire elements and spiral pendants gave the object volume and movement. The use of casting, granulation, embossing, wirework, niello, and soldering reflects the silverworking skills of 19th-20th-century jewellers.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the construction of silver earrings, and the traditional production of decorative wire elements and movable pendants.