Silver Adornment from Bilad al-Sham

ART – MUSIC – CULTURE

Exhibition
16 May – 12 September 2008

 

Silver Adornment from Bilad al-Sham
organized by

The Bead Museum

 

Until the 1950s and 1960s hand-crafted silver jewelry and beautifully embroidered costumes were widely worn in Bilad al-Sham, an area that included Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria. Now, for the first time, splendid examples of these pieces can be seen at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery. Ellen Benson and Lynn Springer of the Bead Museum organized the exhibit; the items are largely drawn from the David and Marjorie Ransom collection.

 

 

A complimentary exhibit drawn from the same collection, Silver Speaks, closed March 2008 after successful showings at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, the Gibson Gallery at the State University of New York at Potsdam, the Jefferson County Historical Society in Watertown, New York and the Bead Museum in Washington, DC. Also, the Mingei International Museum in San Diego displayed seventy-seven pieces from this collection from April 2006 to September 2007.