According to artifacts of Bronze Age, being kept at the State Museum of State Cultural Center, one can be convinced of level of aesthetic development of human being of that remote period. At that, it was displayed both in the construction of amazing temple structures as well as in delicate jewelry art, articles of fine plastic.
Numerous collection of the museum includes a large number of articles used by beauties in antiquity. According to them, it is possible to imagine the articles on “dressing table” of woman from Margush: caskets, hairpins, combs, mirrors as well as perfumes. Collection of tiny phials, which once kept the infusions from flowers and roots of plants, comes to over 50 units in our museum. There are also a large number of sticks from ivory and metal. These are the articles only from findings on the territory of Gonurdepe and Ajiguyi.
Each of these articles is unique by its beauty. All of them differ with shape and patterns on them. Some of them have geometric figures, the others – pictures, bearing semantic significance. One of them – the flower, which caused a stir in Europe, particularly in Holland, having appeared there from the East. In 1643, nearly all population of Holland was interested in tulip cultivation. People purchased tubers of unusual flower and laid in their gardens. Tulip became so fashionable flower that even such great artists as Rubens and Rembrandt depicted its images on the canvas.
Phial with the image of tulips from collection of the museum is nearly 4 thousand years! Image of tulips with ten years' prescription is identical with present flowers, being grown today on green slopes of the Turkmen land. In our days, the Turkmen girls and women use in embroidering of national cloth the pattern “chigildemgul” – tulip. They often adorn with them the women’s kerchief. Ancient masters used the image of tulips not only on phials, but it is possible to find them on sticks from ivory or silver, which served for pinning up the hair or as fastener on collar or belt.
Perfect works of fine and jewelry art are the bronze and silver pins with forms of wild ram, gazelle, and saiga. These animals were always identified with elegance, grace and adroitness.
Collection of the museum keeps a lot of tiny vessels, which were used by women supposedly for mixing incenses, cosmetic and medicinal agents. Undoubtedly, this product was in demand on the territory of Margush.
Numerous collection of the museum includes a large number of articles used by beauties in antiquity. According to them, it is possible to imagine the articles on “dressing table” of woman from Margush: caskets, hairpins, combs, mirrors as well as perfumes. Collection of tiny phials, which once kept the infusions from flowers and roots of plants, comes to over 50 units in our museum. There are also a large number of sticks from ivory and metal. These are the articles only from findings on the territory of Gonurdepe and Ajiguyi.
Each of these articles is unique by its beauty. All of them differ with shape and patterns on them. Some of them have geometric figures, the others – pictures, bearing semantic significance. One of them – the flower, which caused a stir in Europe, particularly in Holland, having appeared there from the East. In 1643, nearly all population of Holland was interested in tulip cultivation. People purchased tubers of unusual flower and laid in their gardens. Tulip became so fashionable flower that even such great artists as Rubens and Rembrandt depicted its images on the canvas.
Phial with the image of tulips from collection of the museum is nearly 4 thousand years! Image of tulips with ten years' prescription is identical with present flowers, being grown today on green slopes of the Turkmen land. In our days, the Turkmen girls and women use in embroidering of national cloth the pattern “chigildemgul” – tulip. They often adorn with them the women’s kerchief. Ancient masters used the image of tulips not only on phials, but it is possible to find them on sticks from ivory or silver, which served for pinning up the hair or as fastener on collar or belt.
Perfect works of fine and jewelry art are the bronze and silver pins with forms of wild ram, gazelle, and saiga. These animals were always identified with elegance, grace and adroitness.
Collection of the museum keeps a lot of tiny vessels, which were used by women supposedly for mixing incenses, cosmetic and medicinal agents. Undoubtedly, this product was in demand on the territory of Margush.
