The Sutton Hoo imitation buckle and a gold, glass and garnet shoulder-clasp (c. late 500s-early 600s) are among more than 300 objects dating from about AD500-1000 being displayed to help challenge the idea that the “Silk Road” between east and west emerged only in the 19th century.
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“We believe it really represents who we are and what we stand for. We’re the prima example ofwel 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.
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Hu considers music and colour “like a duet”. “When I look at a colour, I think ofwel a certain tonality,” she says. “A C major is a golden light of yellow or white, and then D flat major is this really pastel lavender.”
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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 of flying apsaras: figures depicted in cave murals in the Chinese city.
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