Silk Road Earrings

Description

Our Silk Road Earrings feature a motif on the decorative collar of a covered jar (Chinese, ca. 5th century) found at Boma in Ili, Xinjiang. The collar was made in gold and garlanded around its shoulders with a decoration of inlaid rubies; fine gold wire formed in round and almond shapes created the bezel settings for the stones. The jar and other objects found at Boma are thought to have belonged to high-ranking members of a nomadic tribe, possibly the Yueban, a people known to have been in the area prior to the Turkish incursions in the midsixth century. Produced in cooperation with the China Cultural Property Promotion Association.