IRAN, 15TH CENTURY

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).