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| Fez Ornament 1800-1872 Egypt The Victoria & Albert Museum |
The 1851 Great Exhibition inspired a series of “London International Exhibitions” which took place in South Kensington in 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874 in order to showcase fine arts and scientific inventions.
In
the 1872 Exhibition, one emphasis was on jewelry, including so-called “peasant
jewellery.” The Exhibition Commissioners
arranged with the South Kensington Museum (later the V&A) to create a massive
collection of peasant jewelry from “all parts of the world, which should become
public property, for exhibition in the Museum after the close of the
Exhibition.”
This
ornament is part of that collection. The piece was described in the
future-V&A’s register as an “ornament for the top of a fez or tarboosh” (a
tarboosh is a round brimless red felt hat) from Egypt.
The
jewel is comprised of a silver disc from which hang seventeen chains and
pendants. The pendants appear to represent common domestic Egyptian objects
including: a hammer, an axe, a sword, a coffee pot and a frying pan. It was made in Egypt between 1800 and 1872.
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