Antique Turquoise Coral Inlay S/Silver Bracelet Tibet

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Siamtalisman Antique Turquoise Coral Inlay S/Silver Bracelet Tibet Antique Turquoise Coral Inlay S/Silver Bracelet Tibet Product information Weight: Approx. 107.3 grams. Size: 2.5" inner. Bracelet surface size: 33x65mm. Type of stone: Turquoise/red coral. Materail: Sterling silver. Condition: Excellent Condition. Materail: Sterling silver. Origin: Discovered in Tibet. Central Asia Central Asia is a hybrid of peoples and cultures. It includes the area from Siberia in the north to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India in the south; from the Caspian Sea in the west to Mongolia in the northeast and China in the east. Today's northern Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) , and the Himalayan lands of Tibet, Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim, and Bhutan are all part of this historic region. For millenniums, almost every person in this part of Asia has worn substantial quantities of beads and always prominently displayed them. Whether as objects of wealth and social status or as talismans, beads were and are part of the daily spiritual and secular life of the people. Beads were usually imported. In finished form or as raw materials, they have always been a major component of central Asia trade. Italian coral, Burmese and Baltic amber, Chinese turquoise and silver, and precious gems from India have passed through the region. The elaborate trade routes--involving nomadic herdsmen, local merchants, and international brokers--that carried goods from Asia and to the West also served to distribute beads to people along the way. Adornment is one manifestation of the divisions in wealth and circumstances among the pastoral nomads, village agriculturalists, and city dwellers. Each group wore jewelry that was appropriate to its social standing and development. T are frequently greater similarities between beads worn by nomads from Turkmenistan, Nepal, and Mongolia than between the Nepalese nomads and the Nepalese urban dwellers, or even between different social classes in Nepalese cities. This is partly because the wealthy could create elaborate ensembles of foreign imports that were not readily affordable to others. Yet, despite differences in materials, jewelry from central Asia has a common purpose: to endow the owner with the bead's or jewel's spiritual and protective properties. Given this unifying premise--a continuation of ancient shamanistic beliefs overlaid with Buddhist, Hindu, or Islamic tenets--each ethnic and economic group has chosen distinctive ways to articulate its adornment. Dating to the days of the Roman Empire, the silk routes were the most famous of Asia's trading channels. By the second century B.C. , a dazzling array of finished beads and bead raw materials, including silver, coral, glass, and lapis lazuli, was transported eastward along the silk routes, while caravans originating in China arrived at the emporiums of Samarkand, Balkh, Kabul, and Antioch laden with silk, porcelain, lacquer, and vermilion. The international bead trade helped link the extreme ends of the ancient world from the earliest days of the silk routes. Egyptian and Roman glass beads have been excavated in the Warring States period ( 481-221 B.C. ) and Han dynasty ( 206 B.C.-A.D. 220 ) tombs. Under the Kushan dynasty, which controlled territories from northern India to central Asia during the second century A.D., t was intensive trade between India and the eastern provinces of Roman Empire. This is seen in the discovery at Kara Bulak, near Ferghana in Turkmenistan, of beads made of carnelian, agate, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, faience, gold-in-glass, and millefiore glass. They were all imported from India, Afghanistan, and the Roman Mediterranean world and can be dated, for the most part, to between the first and the second centuries A.D. With the end of the Kushan period in the fourth century, the main silk routes came under the control of nomadic Turkish tribes who arrived in central Asia as part of the great movement of populations during the Migrations ... read more

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