Jewelery in Anatolia
Anatolian jewelery is a four thousand years old art. This unique art, was born from
the essence of Anatolian Civilizations. Created measureless shapes. Produced beauty,
color and light. Every shape that is created also became an idea. Anatolian former
jewellers, was turned ideas, philosophies and dreams into the jeweleries. Jewlery
became the shape of immortalty. The master from the Alacahoyuklu, was reborn every
time when he looked at the crowns that he made for the princess.
Anatolian jewelery masters, while they are turning the golds which they were derived
from nature with washing method into the artwork, they polished them with the fine
sand. However this method, was never seen or never known before ‘til then. So, after
examining the jeweleries in Alacahoyuk, it is apparently that the Anatolian Jewelleres
since the Bronze Age, right along with the swaging, casting, clinching, coating
techniques, they also discovered the embossing, granulating, puncturing, nailing,
filigring and ornamenting with colored Stones. Besides, they also created a brand
new art syntheses in Jewelery called ‘Oriantalisan’ using with ruby, emerald, agate,
aquamarine, garnet, karneol, sard, plasma, amethyst and also gold, silver. Probably,
they created oldest east and West synthesis by creating crescent, spiral shapes,
pomegranate and acorn patterns over the crown, earring, broch, clasp and belts.
Jeweller from Gultepe, became eternal with golden earring that he made four thousand
years before, The master from the Alacahoyuklu, was reborn every time when he looked
at the crowns that he made for the princess. Krezus, refreshend under the light
of the gold. Today, that we are admiring in museums golden thrones decorated with
chrysolite, ruby and jade stones, gives us the glory of the past. Golden cribs decorated
with diamond, ruby and emerald brings princes to our present day.