Products description
Very rare - Turkmen girls hood (headdress - Ersari?); 1st half of the 20th century; hood embroidered with linen, adorned with metal leaves, coins, buttons and sequins; the coins date from the period 1948 - 1980 and show approximately how long the hood was in use; On the top of the bonnet is a towering metal tip with colored stones made of silver, engraved in the style of the Tekke Turkmen and partly (fire) gilded; hemmed in half with wool fringes and set with small colored glass beads; traces of use according to age; measurements: H aprox. 17 cm; provenance „Jürgen Maurer (1939-2018)“, prominent businessman, art collector and chronicler from Heppenheim (Germany) http://www.kunstsammlungmaurer.de