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Breast decoration and bracelet, Kubachi village, Daghestan (Caucasus)

Posted by Joost Daalder on March 10, 2013 at 1:17pm
Armband and pendant (breast decoration), from the village of Kubachi, Daghestan (Caucasus). Gilt silver decorated with enamelwork, engraving and granulation. From *Museum of the Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR: Jewellery* (1988), p. 63.
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  • Joost Daalder March 11, 2013 at 12:22am

    Kubachi was famed for this kind of enamelling, which was also widely exported.

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