Hinged bracelet with Assyrian-inspired decoration
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Following the excavation of Assyrian palaces in the mid-nineteenth century, ancient Mesopotamian imagery began to be used in European decorative arts, including jewelry and ceramics. Publicity in the form of news coverage and popular books around the excavations, removal of many sculptures from sites in northern Iraq to England and France, and public spectacles such as the reconstructed ‘Nineveh Court’ in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, London, fostered a fascination with Assyria and Assyrian art among the Victorian public.
This Assyrian revival bracelet, composed of seven hinged plates, features a variety of the supernatural figures seen on the monumental stone reliefs found in the Assyrian palaces. The central panel shows a god in a winged sun-disc, usually interpreted as the state god Ashur or the sun god Shamash.
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