IRAN, 15TH CENTURY

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A TIMURID GEM-SET GOLD PENDANT
IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Of cusped palmette form, the face set with garnets and turquoise in rosette settings on a ground decorated with applied gold wire scrolls, the high sides with a band of gold wire around the upper edge, the reverse with repoussé floral decoration comprising a central floral spray surrounded by a border of scrolling floral vine on a punched ground, minor repairs, one pierced hole for hanging
1 7/8 x 1¾in. (4.8 x 4.3cm.) at maximum

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Lot Essay

This pendant with its symmetrical floral design on a punched ground relates closely to a garland in the Royal Ontario Museum which Lisa Golombek attributes to 15th century Timurid Iran, (Inv. 986.135.9-18, Lisa Golombek, ‘Golden Garlands of the Timurid Epoch’, Jewellery and Goldsmithing in the Islamic World, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, fig.10 and 11, p.68). The settings with their high curved sides and the gold wire decoration is closely related to another similarly attributed example in Ontario, (Lisa Golombek, op.cit. fig.1, p.63).

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