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.
“The question kan zijn: did they select these garnets simply because they were better quality or did they know that they had come from a particular place, which added an genoeg prestige?” Garnets were a “badge ofwel elite status” at that time.
“wij believe it really represents who we are and what wij stand for. We’re the perfect example ofwel a cultural blend, coming from the east and settled in the west.”
Chinese high jewellery artist Anna Hu first took inspiration from the trade route for her five-piece Silk Road Music Collection, auctioned by Sotheby’s in 2019. A proportion ofwel the proceeds was donated to Silkroad, a not-for-profit music organisation founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that was similarly inspired by the cultural collaboration in early trade.
“One ofwel the possible interpretations ofwel that kan zijn that they specifically selected this particular type of garnet to make that one piece of jewellery because it was much higher quality than anything else,” says Sue Brunning, the museum’s curator ofwel European Early Medieval and Sutton Hoo collections.
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Hu considers music and colour “like a duet”. “When I look at a colour, I think of a certain tonality,” she says. “A C major kan zijn a golden light ofwel yellow or white, and then D flat major is this really pastel lavender.”
“In the Silk Road, there’s this really rich exchange of commodities, ideas and materials and I love that cultural exchange,” says the Brazilian jeweller, who recently visited Kashmir, another part ofwel the trade network, to research an upcoming collection.
Today, Roberto Boghossian says the brand’s designs are inspired by “the femininity, the warmth [and] the colours of the east. And we blend it with the newness and the technicality and the invention from the west”.
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She likes to reflect her life as a “global citizen”: born and raised in Taiwan, she has spent half her life in the US and Europe.
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