Featured Please help with garnet necklace

Hello,

Any idea about the origin of this necklace ? It is marked 925 on the interior of the claps, the stones tests as garnets.. I know it's crazy, but they look like some people with their hands on the hips? And I can't unsee it...
Thank you so much !

 

Very nice, Xristina. Can't help with the origin, but I like it.

I first saw amphoras, but of course now I see your people with their hands on their hips. Why not call it a row of dancers.

 

Thank you.. I didn't think of amphoras, that's a start..
Exactly, they are doing something like this.. so if you (maybe) see it too, I'm not that crazy..

 

I only see it because you saw it. But now I see a row of dancers. And I love Bulgarian folk dances.

 

Wild guess - Finland? One of the Baltics? It looks almost like Scandinavian Modernist, but a little more primitive.

 

I can go with dancers and it’s pretty modernist ethnic! Like it a lot!

Feels more Eastern to me so can’t see Scandinavia.

 

I like it too!
Leslie

 

I see the jars too !

 

Thank you, everyone ! I was thinking Greece (don't know why), but I think I am being influenced by the "dancers".. and amphoras and jars match for Greece too, isn't it ?

 

It reminds me of one of my favourite necklaces, pic below (have to take another one ). No amphoras.

It has a maker's mark and 925, but it has been virtually impossible to find the origin of the maker. I first started out thinking modern Bulgaria, because both the circular motifs and the dangles on the triangular pendants are also seen on Bulgarian jewellery (modern and traditional). I actually bought Bulgarian earrings to wear with it.
Then I saw a listing for a necklace by the same maker, it said Greek.
Finally I saw a listing which said Turkey. It is marked on just about every component, the way Turkish jewellery is.
So the 'working title' is: somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean/former Ottoman region, with a hint of ancient East Med civilizations.

 

Hora. Balkans down to Greece. resemblance to Sufi dances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_(dance)

 

Ahem. It's amphorae if we're being pedantic.

 

I was thinking the same when I wrote it, but I wasn't in a pedantic mood. It comes and goes.

 

The dancers in the photo are likely to say horo. (If we're being pedantic )
What the necklace says is anyone's guess.

 

"Wear me"

 

That's what they all say.

 

Your necklace is beautiful, the "working title" works for me..

We (Romania) actually have the same dance, it is very popular and we call it "hora" .. it's very lively and animated.. I think that's how I made those connections with the dancers in my head...

 

It seems almost all cultures have these circle or ring dances. I can do a little sardana, from Catalunya. (A symbol of resistence to Franco, at one time!)

 

With my dancing background, I can dance horas, horos and oros. Several other Eastern European dances as well. Our dance group was specialized in Bulgarian, but I really loved Armenian too.
My favourite Balkan dance was a Macedonian dance where you dance 'over the beat'. So you step a split second after the beat. Complicated to most people, but being a slow coach by nature, I was usually given the lead in our group.

I have never danced it, but I've seen it and I know I could join in. It is one of those dances where you 'feel' the dance and the other dancers.
I have often danced a totally different Spanish traditional though, the Sevillana. And true Flamenco dances in my Flamenco days. I still have the shoes and skirts. Off to reminisce now....

 

Is there anything you can’t do? Are you possibly superwoman too in you spare time?

Lovely necklace
Eyes see funny things sometimes. I saw this tub in the hedge and every time I walk past it I see a face. OH sees a red plastic tub and thinks I'm bonkers!