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Rather than being a single trade route, the exhibition suggests the Silk Roads comprised overlapping networks spreading from Japan to Britain, and Scandinavia to Madagascar. “It’s not just silk, it’s not just one road,” says Brunning. “It’s people, objects and ideas moving in all directions.” The garnets would have travelled to England “in stages by relay”.
“wij believe it really represents who wij are and what wij stand for. We’re the voortreffelijk example of a cultural blend, coming from the east and settled in the west.”
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 of 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.
Treasures found inside the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial — on its discovery in Suffolk, eastern England, in 1939 — included some ofwel the best-surviving examples ofwel garnet cloissoné metalwork. Now, scientific analysis has revealed the origin of these stones.
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Today, Roberto Boghossian says the brand’s designs are inspired by “the femininity, the warmth [and] the colours of the east. And wij blend it with the newness and the technicality and the invention from the west”.
His ancestor, Ovaness Boghossian, set up a jewellery workshop in the Turkish city of Mardin in 1868, with the family expanding into buying and selling stones before eventually settling in Europe in the 1970s.
Hu, herself a trained cellist, has continued to draw on the music and dance of the Silk Road. Her Dance of Dunhuang brooch, unveiled at TEFAF Maastricht in March, was inspired by the silhouette ofwel flying apsaras: figures depicted in cave murals in the Chinese city.
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