Necklace Formed of Fifteen Dress Ornaments
probably Transylvania Transylvania
This necklace was assembled, probably in the nineteenth century, from fifteen clothing ornaments dating to the early seventeenth century. The prevalence of these ornaments, called boglar, in sixteenth and seventeenth-century inventories of Hungarian women, suggests that they were relatively inexpensive, a theory supported by the minimal use of precious metal. The jewels were frequently marked on the back, presumably by the maker, with initials; in the case of the present work, “GK” and “HB”.
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