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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Jewellery, Rooms 91, The William and Judith Bollinger Gallery

Ornament

ca. 929-1010 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Silver-gilt ornament composed of a central ring with a stone missing from the centre, surrounded by eight rings with filigree sides forming a rosette


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Gilded copper alloy with filigree decoration, one with a missing stone, the other with a missing setting
Brief description
Rosette ornament of gilded copper alloy with filigree sides, one with a stone missing, the other with a missing setting; probably from a necklace; found with a coin hoard in Murcia, made in the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba, 929-1010
Physical description
Silver-gilt ornament composed of a central ring with a stone missing from the centre, surrounded by eight rings with filigree sides forming a rosette
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 3.2cm
  • Depth: 0.7cm
Style
Historical context
Found with a coin hoard in Murcia, one of only two known hoards from Moorish Spain
Production
Made in the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba; found in Lorca, Murcia
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, London, 2010, p.26.
Collection
Accession number
1452-1870

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Record createdAugust 2, 2005
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