Big gilded silver amulet “Tumar”, from Uzbekistan (Central Asia).
Materials: silver, gilded silver, turquoisea and glass.
From the 19th century or early 20th.
Dimensions: 13 x 9,5 x 1,7 cm
Weight: 156,8 gr
Literature:
“Il corallo. Nell’ornamento dell’Asia islamica dalla Turchia all’Uzbekistan”, del Mare, Cristina-Vidale, Massimo, Electa napoli, 2001, p. 101
“Museum of the ethnography of the peoples of the USSR”, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1988, p. 118
“A song in metal. Folk Art of Uzbekistan”, Abdullayev, T, Gafur Gulyam Art and Literature Publishers, Tashkent, 1986, p. 237
“Traditional jewellery from Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan”, Sovetsky khudozhnik Publishers, 1984, 163
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