The Golden Crown and the Gold Smithing Skill in Shilla Dynasty.

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The Golden Crown and other decorations is believe one of the best relic of Shilla dynasty. Needless to say, You will acknowledge it’s beauty and delicacy of Shilla culture as soon as looking at.

Different from Baek Jae, the relics of Shilla was not stollen severely like Baek Jae.
The reason why the relics were not stollen so much was due to the construction style of tomb.
The tombs of Baek Jae had an entrance to the tomb from out side.
If the tomb raider found the entrance, they could steal the relics with easy.

Under the Japanese rule, Japanese had collected the relics from koreans who had stole the relics from the tomb. Relatively Baek Jae Tombs were easy to steal compare to that of Shilla dynasty which didn’t make an entrance of tomb at all.

Now days, Baek Jae relics are very rare even in Museum. Many relics of Baek Jae dynasty were believed to had been smuggled from Korea to Japan.

The relics of Shilla dynasty were not easy to steal due to the structure of tomb construction.

Because of this reason, we could see the golden crown in the National Museum.

If you look at the golden crown with your eyes, you will be surprise on their beauty and delicacy.
It is lucky we could see the perfect crown and decorations.

Needless to say, let’s look at the golden relics first.

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In this posting, I’d like to show you mainly the crown and the earrings.
You can see the perfect crown. It looked amazing how this crown could’ve been preserved such a perfect appearance under the ground for a long time.

You can see lots of bended jades on the crown. The bended jade was a symbol of the king’s authority.

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The earrings were so delicate. It meant that the gold smithing skill was so excellent in Shilla dynasty.
Let’s look at the earrings more in detail.

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I am curious when they put those ear rings on their ear, what would happen on their ear ?

Everything has it’s origin and process. Of course this wonderful relics also must've had it’s own start.
In next posting, I’d like to look at the process for this awesome gold smithing skill.

Thank you for reading.

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Absolutely amazing works of art. I love Gold and Silver, in either coinage or artistic forms!

I am still amazed to see the crown in pictures and as you mentioned if we see live the beauty will be much more than the pictures. This is masterpiece and I would like to pay my regards to you for showing such wonferful things.

I agree with you that it's quite impressive.. Nice one

Yes, it's masterpiece, needless to say

This is fanatastic! It is amazing to see gold jewelry as it has been used for thousands of years through the ages to store wealth. I am involved with a company called Menē that manufactors 24 karat gold jewelry that is co designed by Diana Picasso, Pablo Picassos grand daughter. I blog almost exclusively about this here on Steemit. If you are interested, check it out :)

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The Shilla Kings really had a brilliant way of ensuring that their ombs won't be raided @slowwalker and now we can marvel the beauty of their relics. Those earrings are so heavy to be worn too.

That is amazing that the crown is in such good shape after all theses years. Do you know when the Japanese took it from the Koreans? When did Korea get it back? I can’t imagine someone actually having it on their head.

that is turely gorgeous. wish i could have something shining like this.
Will their ears become bigger than others as the earings looks So heavy?

Gold has never gone out of style!!

so many golden relics , amazing !