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Pair of Earrings and Two Hair Ornaments
These jewels are part of an ensemble collected by Julius Stein van Gollenesse, director-general of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in Batavia (now Jakarta). Attached to the top of the ornament in the shape of a horizontal crescent moon is a tiny eye. A pearl necklace would have been affixed to it, and the jewel then pinned in the hair so that it would fall in the middle of the forehead. The rou…
Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry
- jewelry
- Jewelry
Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry
- jewelry
- Jewelry
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- 1750
- 1750
Identifier
- AK-NM-7058
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/AK-NM-7058
Extent
- height 6 cm
- width 2.8 cm
- depth 1.7 cm
Language
- nl
- nld
Year
- 1750
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-04-12T19:41:10.124Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-04-20T10:25:53.817Z