Necklace known as kirdan, widespread in the Ottoman Empire and worn in Southeast Asia as well as in North Africa. This one is on a painting by Emma Sandys, 1863, called « a Saxon princess », referring to the early Middle Ages in Europe. Jewelry like this wasn’t worn by saxons. This is an example of how jewelry that was worn at the end of the 19th century in Southwest Asia was rendered truthfully, but taken from its cultural context and used to romanticize the past, or a different past of the world.
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Emma Sandys
British, 1843-1877
A Saxon Princess (detail)
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A Saxon Princess by Emma Sandys, England
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Emma Sandys, A Saxon Princess, ca. 1860-77
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Emma Sandys, A Saxon Princess, ca. 1860-77 (detail)
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Emma Sandys - A Saxon Princess (19th century)
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