The art of metalwork is appertain to the lessons that
are situated on the shaky verge, where the general craft ceases to be a craft
and becoming an art. The Kazakh masters zergers, who worked on silver,
perfectly mastered the sophisticated technology of jewelry: stamping,
engraving, embossing , graining , filigree, knurled, blackening. Women's
jewelry such as onirzhiek - pectorals, blezik - wristbands, zhuzik - rings, kosa
syrga – earrings with pendants and other styles, are surprisingly close, by the
manufacturing technique, to the so-called polychrome style, which is known from
the archaeological finds of 4th and 5th centuries of a new
era in Kazakhstan (Borovoye, Kanattas, Karaagach, Koktal, Kyzyl-Kynar-tobe,
Aktobe, etc.).
Ring-seal. Ring with a mirror shield. The Issyk barrow. V-IV centuries BC, Semirechye
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