Earring

Description

Earring - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the ear. The museum object is made of silver of 600 fineness. The main section is shaped like a crescent. Its lower edge is decorated with three semicircular projections. The front surface bears an incised decorative motif highlighted with blue enamel.
Earrings of this form were used as women’s decorative jewellery. The combination of the crescent-shaped body and the three semicircular projections along the lower edge defines the artistic character of the object. The use of forging, bending, embossing, incision, and enamelling 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 the use of coloured enamel in traditional jewellery.