OTTOMAN TURKEY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

A related pendant, although not inlaid, is in the Hermitage Museum (Mikhail B. Piotrovsky and Anoton D. Pritula, ed., Beyond the Palace Walls, Islamic art from the State Hermitage Museum, Edinburgh, 2006, cat.92, p.92). In the exhibition catalogue, it is note that objects made out of jade usually have no metal inlay. This would explain that this pendant was decorated at a later date in Turkey, in a typical Ottoman manner with rosette mounts around each turquoise inset.