Hungarian historical jewelry

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Násfa - the word pronunciation naaspha.

Brooch, pendant, or hairpin ornament in Hungary and Transylvania
Materials are most often gold or silver base, ruby, emerald, sapphire, rarely diamond gemstones, true pearls, coral pearls and, above all, the extremely popular enamel.

There were countless beautiful nasfa in the treasury of Hungarian noble houses. They were often worn as pendants on pearl rows or thick gold chains. Sometimes several nasfa were tied together as a necklace.
The ladies also wore it hung on a hairpin, on which the jewelry rocked as they moved their heads.
Hence the name of this piece of jewelry. "quivering hairpin"

In the legacy lists, and dowry lists common items a
nasfa, necklaces made of old pearls (large true pearls), kaláris (coral pearls)
Enamel work is also common, in many cases everything else was ignored and only different types of enamel were used.

Thanks for the photos to the Museum of Applied Arts and Kotomi_. (flickr)



 
"Tradition says that at the wedding of Gábor (Gabriel) Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania with Catherine Brandenburg, six squire ones
and the prince himself wore this kind of wedding nasfa, the squire's ones were made of silver, the Prince  was made of gold."

Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania and Katalin Brandenburg engagement jewelry 



Gábor Bethlen   and  Catherine of Brandenburg 

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2021.07.11