Bracelet

Description

Bracelet - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the wrist. The museum object is made from a strip of silver of 500 fineness using forging and bending techniques. It has the form of an open-ended hoop with an oval outline. The strip is 0.8 cm wide. Both ends are forged thicker than the main body and shaped with rounded terminals. The outer surface bears embossed ornamentation, with the recessed motifs filled with blue enamel. The enamel coating is only partially preserved.
Open-ended bracelets of this type were worn by Kazakh women as everyday and decorative jewellery. The thickened ends strengthened the object and emphasized its decorative form. The combined use of forging, bending, embossing, and enamelling reflects the artistic silverworking skills of 20th-century jewellers.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the tradition of decorating silver bracelets with coloured enamel, and the artistic and technological characteristics of 20th-century jewellery.