Earring

Description

Earring - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the ear. The museum object is made of silver of 916 fineness. The main section has a semicircular, basket-like form. An elongated high ear hook is attached to the upper part. The front surface is decorated with embossed ornamentation.
Earrings of this form were used as women’s decorative jewellery. The combination of the semicircular basket-like body and the high ear hook defines the formal and artistic character of the object. The use of casting, forging, and embossing reflects traditional 20th-century methods of shaping and decorating silver jewellery.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the formal characteristics of silver earrings, and methods of decorating metal surfaces with embossed ornamentation.