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 extra prestige?” Garnets were a “badge of elite status” at that time.
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.
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 is that they specifically selected this particular type of garnet to make that one piece ofwel 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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Hu considers music and colour “like a duet”. “When I look at a colour, I think ofwel a certain tonality,” she says. “A C major is a golden light of yellow or white, and then D flat major kan zijn this really pastel lavender.”
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