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Uzbeki headdress

Posted by Joost Daalder on August 15, 2011 at 9:51am
We feel privileged to have been able to buy this fantastic, top quality headdress from Linda Pastorino. It is made of silver-gilt, micro-mosaic turquoises, and corals. It is in excellent condition, with the tassels perfect (a rare event!). The object has nothing to do with a bra: it was attached to a very large structure on top of the wearer's head, and an onlooker viewing the wearer frontally would have seen the way we see it here, but high above the head. We believe that the piece is even older than Linda had cautiously dated it, and would assign it to c. 1880 rather than late 19th/early 20th c, but it is difficult to be sure. It is certainly a very well used, early, and exceptional piece. It is obviously of urban manufacture, and may have been made, as Linda suggested, in Kiva, although it also has much in common with superb pieces from Bukhara made at about the same time.
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