- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pair of earrings in silver filigree, forming stars. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Filigree
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.12.43.1 Accession number: 1940.12.43.2
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Copy of catalogue: 'An Exhibition of Balkan Peasant Work' at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 'presented by Miss. M. E. Durham' [University Press, Oxford, England]. Exhibition based on her donation to the Pitt Rivers Museum of objects from the Balkans. [GI 18/12/2001]
Search terms: Ornament, Ear Ornament
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