Lot Essay
Similar earrings are in the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Hasson,R.:Early Islamic Jewellery, Jerusalem 1987, nos.100 and 102, pp.78-79
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A FATIMID GOLD EARRING
EGYPT, 11TH/12TH CENTURY
Of crescent form, one side worked with filigree scrolling motifs above a curving row of bosses within a loop motif border, the other simply with delicate scrolling filigree arabesques, the exterior side with a band of granulated bosses within a border, wire loop above, slight damages
7/8in. (2.2cm.) across
EGYPT, 11TH/12TH CENTURY
Of crescent form, one side worked with filigree scrolling motifs above a curving row of bosses within a loop motif border, the other simply with delicate scrolling filigree arabesques, the exterior side with a band of granulated bosses within a border, wire loop above, slight damages
7/8in. (2.2cm.) across