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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10093030, member: 2844&quot;]Like most of you, I have so many best of 2024. But here is a selection.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Friesland, the sweetest little 19th century trinket box, modelled on a Hindeloopen captain&#039;s chest:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]506583[/ATTACH]</p><p>Love the wee ship.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The other faves are from Java.</p><p>First a Javanese silver wedding belt by well known Djokja/Yogya maker TOM (established ca 1890):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]506584[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]506585[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A 19th century black lacquered and gilded snake buckle from Surakarta:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]506586[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And last, an antique silver and suassa buckle from West Java, worn in both the indigenous Sundanese and the Peranakan communities. </p><p>(Indonesian suassa is 4 parts gold, 3 parts silver, 2 parts copper. Those are the reddish bits you see.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]506587[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>According to my books the mind-boggling technique is called &#039;tatrapan&#039;, filigree on a thick silver base, and a layer of tightly positioned appliqués of leaves, butterflies and birds soldered on top of the filigree.</p><p>Similar pieces were made in Sulawesi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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