Context (Analysis)
The accretions found on this piece, in addition to the appearance of the silver, suggest to Anita Herle that the metal used is a mixture of silver and other metals, possibly among them copper.
Event Date 22/11/2004
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Context (Acquisition Details)
Mrs. Barbara Spalding and her husband Michael worked as English teachers in Taiz, Yemen, from 1997-98 during which time she collected silver and talked to the men in the market silver shops.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Silver necklace. The main elements are: four rows of mainly silver beads, inspersed with pale red coral or stone beads; a rectangular ornament at the centre decorated with hand-made filigree work, with a ?coral stone at the centre from which dangle four long rods ending in tear-drop shaped pendants; two narrow rectangular ornaments, also decorated with hand-made filigree from which dangle two pendants similar to those in the centre; two flower-like pendants decorated with filigree and small coral beads; two triangular ornaments at the end of each half of the necklace, decorated with filigree work and circular rivets. The necklace fastens with a hook and eye.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Necklace, made of silver chain fasthening with a hook and eye. The body of the necklace terminates on either side with two large triangular pieces decorated with filigree and circular rivets. From these pieces are four stands of cuboid silver beads interspersed with orange beads, possibly coral. These strands meet at a central rectangular pendant set with an orange bead, possibly coral, and about half way between the triangular pieces and the central pendant are thinner rectangular pendants, all highly decorated with filigree work. From the central pendant hands four long rods incised with lined decoration down their length, and ending in a tear drop shaped piece of silver. The two smaller rectangular pendants feature two of this same decoration. From the bottom strand of beading, between the larger and smaller pendants, hang two flower-like pendants with filigree and smal coral beads.
Event Date 13/6/2023
Author: Stephanie Chinneck