Jewellery & Goldsmiths' Work
Necklace with beads (sadi?)
Permanent ExhibitionMetalworkJewellery
Details
- Author / creator
- Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, unknown silversmith
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Date or period
- late 1800s or early 1900s
- Maker or workshop
- Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, unknown silversmith
- Period / style
- Historicism
- Place of origin
- Africa
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 2024
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
This necklace has an abundance of phallic beads representing fertility framed by dozens of smaller silver beads. Specialists in gold and silver would melt silver into small balls that were then attached to drawn rods of metal. Atop each bead is a pile of small granulations; these tiny metal spheres are small like pieces of grain.
Materials and technique
Silver alloy
