TWO GOLD OPENWORK TALISMANIC PENDANTS (TAWIZ)
TWO GOLD OPENWORK TALISMANIC PENDANTS (TAWIZ)

PERSIA OR EGYPT, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY

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TWO GOLD OPENWORK TALISMANIC PENDANTS (TAWIZ)
PERSIA OR EGYPT, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
Each of tubular form with suspension tube or loops above, the larger worked with a hexagonal lattice of wire applied with fine regular granulation, a large granule at each intersection, the suspension tube of twisted wirework, the other smaller and simpler with linked wire circles and similar domed end-pieces, pendant seed-pearls below
1in. (2.4cm.) and 1.1/8in. (3cm.) long (2)

拍品專文

For a short discussion of the major motif in the larger of these two pendants, see the note to lot 310.