FEAST OR FAMINE

  "The Art of Silver Mastership in 4th–19th Century Georgia" Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi   Some of the pleasures of visiting Tbilisi, Georgia, are the exhibitions about its history. This summer I visited   The Art of Silver Mastership in 4th–19th Century Georgia , an exhibition bringing together remarkable silver objects excavated from archaeological sites throughout Georgia. Spanning more than 1,500 years, the exhibition is about silversmithing and also about the lives of the people who owned these objects.   The exhibition traces the extraordinary skill of Georgian silversmiths through centuries of changing kingdoms, invasions, trade routes, and fashions. Every display case contains objects that were once part of everyday life, or at least the everyday life of those wealthy enough to own them.   There are elegant jewellery pieces: rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and finely worked pendants. There are ornate clothing accessories, such as dress pins, ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. MARTINA NICOLLS MARTINA NICOLLS   is an Australian author and international human rights-based consultant in foreign aid evaluations and audits, education, psychosocial support, resilience, peace and stabilization, and communication, including script writing.  She lives in Paris. Her latest books are :  If Paris Were My Lover  (2025),  Tranquility Mapping  (2025),  Moon, Mood, and Mind Mapping Tracker  (2025), and  Innovations within Constraints Handbook  (2025). She is the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse ...