Bracelet

Description

Bracelet - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the wrist. The museum object is made from a broad strip of silver of 600 fineness using forging and bending techniques. It has the form of an open-ended hoop. The central section is shaped into an outward-facing convex form. Both ends gradually widen and terminate in rounded shapes. The front surface and both terminals bear embossed decorative ornamentation. Individual elements of the design are highlighted with blue enamel.
Broad open-ended bracelets of this type were worn by Kazakh women as decorative jewellery. The convex central section gave the object volume and enhanced the visual effect of the embossed design. The combined use of forging, bending, embossing, and enamelling reflects the skills of 20th-century jewellers in shaping, ornamenting, and colouring silver objects.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the structural features of silver bracelets, and the tradition of decorating jewellery with blue enamel.