A FATIMID GOLD EARRING of crescent form, each side worked with filigree scrolling motifs above a curving row of bosses within a loop motif border, the exterior side with similar bosses within a border, attachments above for loop, circa 12th century (very slight damage to one side)

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A FATIMID GOLD EARRING of crescent form, each side worked with filigree scrolling motifs above a curving row of bosses within a loop motif border, the exterior side with similar bosses within a border, attachments above for loop, circa 12th century (very slight damage to one side)
1¼in. (3.2cm.) across

Lot Essay

Similar earrings are in the L A Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Hasson nos.100 and 102, pp.78-79

Hasson, R.: Early Islamic Jewellery, Jerusalem 1987

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