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    "localId": "80913",
    "label": "Woman's Headband",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2309"
}

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    "id": "80913",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2309",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Woman's Headband",
    "description": "The broad silver headband consists of a flexible, tightly interlaced band, which has shield-shaped end-pieces and seven movable retainers with rhombic elements. End-pieces and retainers are executed in embossing and filigree technique; in addition they are gilded and the background is filled with green enamel. The floral decor on the end pieces combines different shaped leaves and stalks; and the rhombic elements display four three-foil attachments arranged around a central five-ball granulation cluster. The motifs of the end-pieces and retainers are framed with bead-molding borders. Such silver headbands formed the basis of a woman's headpiece. The large loops at the end-pieces were used to fix the band at the headscarf, and the smaller loops on the rhombic elements to fasten smaller (often ball-shaped) dangles. Headpieces such as this were common in northern regions of Yemen.The back of the end pieces has an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruling imam and the date: al-Mahdi 1171. Al-Mahdi al-\"Abbas was the imam of Yemen from AH 1161 to 1189 (AD 1748-1775), and belonged to then Qasimid family. In 1762/63 he met the German explorer Carsten Niebuhr, who reported on this encounter.An engraving in Hebrew on the back of the other end-piece names the silversmith: Sa'id \"Iraqi. The Hebrew script clearly states that the silversmith was Jewish, and the name indicates that he or his family originally came from Iraq.",
    "provenance": "Mr. Derek Content and Mr. Benjamin Zucker [Zucker Family Trust] London and New York, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.",
    "date": "1171 AH/AD 1757-1758",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2309",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "headbands"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40,
            "height": 3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 15 3/4 x W of end-pieces: 1 3/16 in. (40 x 3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Stamp] In Arabic: al-Mahdi 1171; [Engraved] In Hebrew: Sa'id 'Iraqi",
    "dynasty": "Qasimid Dynasty",
    "reign": "Al-Mahdi al-‘Abbas (AD 1748-1775)",
    "med": "silver with gilding and enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "18949"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JWL",
        "SAY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3181",
        "3562"
    ]
}

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