Featured Ethnic Earrings & Cufflinks

@Any Jewelry apologies for calling you twice in short succession!
I’m well out of my depth with these earrings and cuff links. They didn’t arrive together so unrelated but thought similar enough to post together.
The earrings are large at c2.5” long, very roughly made, are they ethnic or made in a shed after a pint?
The cufflinks are made with more skill and marked on the reverse.
Thankyou for any help

 

You can call me as often a you like, my dear K.
The earrings are probably from northern India, and made in an Indian shed after a pint.
Those same long lotus bud elements are worn in several places though, from Yemen to Bhutan. (Bhutanese necklaces with those lotus buds and coral are to die for.)

The cufflinks look Dutch, but I can't make out the 3 mark. The maker's mark doesn't look familiar either. Maybe 'faux Dutch'?

 

Thanks AJ, I suspected a pint was to blame

 

I've a ring a bit like those links. Came from Bavaria.

aj, you'd have like Antiques Roadshow last night. A gold, ruby and other stones Garuda pendant. I've got one, but mine's only brass.

 

Oh wonderful. Newari work I guess, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal?
I think I have a (gilt?) brass one as well, somewhere. I have a few of those old Newari pieces, none of them with rubies etc though.

 

It looked like it. Their "expert" was a bit dim on the origin.

 

Oh dear, one of those "experts".

 

Truth! Referred to Garuda as only Buddhist. Now, I know he shows up in that pantheon, but I do think Hindu more predominant.

 

Absolutely. For instance, in Indonesia Garudas are everywhere. Indonesia has an important Hindu past, but only minor Buddhist involvement. They even named their national airline Garuda. Bali is still mostly Hindu.

Speaking of Bali, did anyone notice that the symbol of the G20 summit on Bali is a Gunungan or Kayon, the sacred mountain symbol that is used in between Wayang theatre scenes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunungan_(wayang)

 

I've seen a lot of beautiful Garuda (Balinese,Indonesian ?) carvings in the last 30 odd years & the craftsmanship is often superb.I've seen so many I passed-up one a few weeks ago for $20.He had the wings, was about 10" high and finely done-probably a stupid move.
Sculptors from that part of the globe seem uniformly quite talented.I've sold tons of stuff and some times the idea of listing more just gets tiresome-still never get burned out looking (but more crankily 'picky').

 

They look a bit like a 'Zeeuwse knoop'. That's a region in the Netherlands where this knob is higly known from.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=zeeuwse+knoop&iax=images&ia=images
In use
https://www.flickr.com/photos/knoffelhuisie/2653442084/in/gallery-kraplap-72157626167804176/

But this design goes back some centuries, and it could well be that it is spread all over the world.
Here some background as an indication to search?

 

As a regional jewellery and dress collector (streekdracht, streeksieraden), I can tell you that what is commonly known in The Netherlands as Zeeuwse knoop was worn throughout most of the Netherlands.
Which is why I said "The cufflinks look Dutch", as opposed to "The cufflinks look Zeeuws/from Zeeland".

And yes, the wearing of cannetille buttons was more widely spread up til ca 1800. The translation of 'Zeeuwse knoop' is Zeeland button btw.

 

Thanks AJ.
I need to do some research on the hallmarks when I have the time!

 

Then you will like this one. https://i.postimg.cc/fbF6k5QN/2013-11-24-zilveren-zeeuwse-knop.jpg
It's a fully handmade filligrain (hundred parts?) age early 19th century or ealier. It's not a button but (it was) a dress pin.

PS: The (wrong) translation was done by google I was to lazy to translate it myself.
But thinking about it. The zeeland knot actually is (named) a knot (as in knotted. Knoop als in: geknoopt), which is used as button but also as hairpin and other klederdracht decorations.
So is then 'zeeland knot' not the right translation? A zeeland knot button? As also zeeland knot hairpin?
And in this case: zeeland knot earrings?

 

The 'Zeeuwse knoop' started life in the 16th-17th century as a button, so it is a button. It made its way to other parts of the costume, just like earlier Medieval buttons did.
This is a natural process of closures, you also see it in the fibula that became a decorative brooch.
And even in the far more recent zipper (ritssluiting) that has become purely decorative in many articles of clothing and footware.
The confusion began because in some dialects 'knoop' is 'knop'. But that doesn't change its use, as a button.
So it is a Zeeland button, whichever way you look at it. Or more correctly, a Dutch button, because it was used in many parts of the country.

 

It is cannetille, so not a hundred parts, but wire wound around a pin (like a spring) and bent into shape to fit around a globule. So every 'spinnetje' consists of two parts, the bead or globule, and the curled wire.
For the top part, the cannetille, of the one you showed, I count 19 parts (quick count), not counting the base it is soldered on.

Alternative spelling of cannetille is cantille.

 

I love your language!
This has taken me down a rabbit hole of looking at Dutch buttons. I often pick up jars of buttons as all sorts of fun stuff can be in them.

 

How do you like 'ritssluiting', for zipper. We can even pronounce it.

 

More 'Zeeuwse knopen'.

The first photos are from Jimmy Nelson's gorgeous book, which I showed the promo video of in another thread.
From the town of Hindeloopen, Friesland, a man with silver buttons on his beautiful 'sits' shirt, and gold collar buttons.



Detail:


Gold or silver 'Zeeuwse knoop' collar buttons were worn in most parts of the Netherlands and are the most frequent of traditional Zeeuwse knopen.

From my own collection, very rare 'Schokker knopen' on an antique necklace. This way of wearing the buttons started ca 1800. The Schokker knoop is associated with the small former island of Schokland, and it has pyramid shapes instead of domes in (part of) the cannetille.



A stunning example from one of the Wadden Islands of East Friesland, NW Germany, a giant sleeve button (not mine):

 

Forgot this one, it is called a 'Goese knoop', after the Zeeland town of Goes. Also from my collection.

It was originally one half of a buckle for a man's costume. In the 20th century it was made into a pendant by Niekerk, a well-known maker from the Dutch silver town of Schoonhoven.