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TWO SELJUK GOLD RINGS
PERSIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
One with hexagonal bezel engraved and worked with niello forming a scrolling frame around a quatrefoil blank cartouche, the shanks tapering, further engraved with floral scrollwork and with moulded terminals, the shank split, the other of similar form, the bezel with a central naskh inscription in a border of linked arabesques, both rubbed
5.8/in. (1.7cm.) diam. (2)
PERSIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
One with hexagonal bezel engraved and worked with niello forming a scrolling frame around a quatrefoil blank cartouche, the shanks tapering, further engraved with floral scrollwork and with moulded terminals, the shank split, the other of similar form, the bezel with a central naskh inscription in a border of linked arabesques, both rubbed
5.8/in. (1.7cm.) diam. (2)