DepartmentLatin America

Earrings, crescent filigree with chain

NameEarrings

Artist Artist Not Recorded

DateLate 19th -early 20th century

Place madeSaraguro, Loja, Ecuador, South America

MediumMetal (silver)

DimensionsOverall: 22 1/16 x 1 15/16 in., 3/16 in. (56 x 5 cm, 0.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from Connie Thrasher Jaquith

Object numberA.2010.11.3

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionPair of silver earrings attached to one another with a woven silver wire chain. The top part of each earring is a filigree clover leaf with large silver ball in the center. From the two round bottom "leaves" are suspended a pair of recumbent half moons, the smaller center one of flat silver with small hammered crescents, surrounded by a larger filigree half moon with eight tiny silver ball dangles from the bottom.