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Fine arts and scientific inventions and discoveries remained central display themes but each exhibition presented different aspects of manufacture. In 1872 one emphasis was on jewellery, including ‘peasant jewellery’. The Exhibition Commissioners arranged with the South Kensington Museum (later V&A) to make a collection of peasant jewellery from ‘all parts of the world, which should become public property, for exhibition in the Museum after the close of the Exhibition’. A letter was sent by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to British representatives overseas asking for their help in securing pieces of jewellery, particularly examples with ‘a direct connection with the native instinctive art, which has been handed down by a long tradition’. The outcome was considered to be ‘most satisfactory … a collection of characteristic ornaments never before equalled was obtained’. \r\n\r\nThis ornament is part of this collection. It is described in the Museum’s accessions register as an ‘ornament for the top of a fez or tarboosh’ (a round brimless red felt hat) from Egypt. It is formed of a silver disc from which hang seventeen chains and pendants. The pendants appear to represent common domestic objects including a hammer, an axe, a sword, a coffee pot and a frying pan.  They  would have been intended as amulets, to help protect and bring good fortune to the wearer. ","physicalDescription":"Disc of sheet silver, slightly curved, decorated with a repousse eight-pointed star.  There are 17 cast silver pendants hanging from the rim on short lengths of foxtail chain, consisting of: a frying pan, a coffee pot, a weight, a bowl, a hammam shoe, an awl (?), a trowel, a pick, a hammer, a hand, a seal, a lock, a sword, a scorpion, a dagger, an axe, and a pistol.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"repoussé","id":"AAT54023"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Repoussé silver with cast silver and silver chain","categories":[{"text":"Africa","id":"THES49019"},{"text":"Hats & headwear","id":"THES48943"},{"text":"Jewellery","id":"THES48930"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Amulets","id":"THES48995"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2008BT3322"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"006","id":"THES375441"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Ornament","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Egypt","id":"x29512"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1860-1872","earliest":"1860-01-01","latest":"1872-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'٨٠' over wavy line, in square frame.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Mark for 800 standard silver.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On disc and on each pendent implement, except for the seal, sword, dagger, scorpion, weight and trowel."},{"content":"'٨٠', a crescent and a stylised lion, in an oval frame.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Mark for 800 standard silver, Egypt, c.1839-1920.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On disc and on four pendants: the sword, dagger, trowel and scorpion."},{"content":"Partial mark of a calligraphic monogram in Arabic.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Tughra of the Ottoman Sultan.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On the disc."}],"objectHistory":"Acquired by the Exhibition Commissioners of the London International Exhibition of 1872 as an example of 'peasant jewellery' and then transferred to the South Kensington (now V&A) Museum.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver disc ornament (kurs) with pendants for the top of a fez or tarboosh, Egypt, 1860-1872.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum, acquired during the year 1873</i>, London: George E. 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