The Sutton Hoo imitation buckle and a gold, glass and garnet shoulder-clasp (c. late 500s-early 600s) are among more than 300 objects dating from about AD500-1000 being displayed to help challenge the idea that the “Silk Road” between east and west emerged only in the 19th century.
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exhibition showing the movement ofwel materials across geographic regions includes a string of blue beads (500s) excavated in Japan that comprises glass from both Iran and elsewhere in Asia.
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“One ofwel the possible interpretations ofwel that is that they specifically selected this particular type ofwel garnet to make that one piece of jewellery because it was much higher quality than anything else,” says Sue Brunning, the museum’s curator of European Early Medieval and Sutton Hoo collections.
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Roberto Boghossian says this “eclectic but meaningful collection” represents his family’s travels.
His ancestor, Ovaness Boghossian, set up a jewellery workshop in the Turkish city of Mardin in 1868, with the family expanding into buying and selling stones before eventually settling in Europe in the 1970s.
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While the exhibition demonstrates that trade was broader than silk, that material has inspired jewellers, too. In the 2018 Silk collection, Boghossian translated traditional silk weaving into pieces featuring gemstones representing key cities along the Silk Road.
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