PROBABLY JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF DIAMOND-SET AND ENAMELLED GOLD NECKLACE ELEMENTS
PROBABLY JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each of triangular form, the green enamelled ground set with diamonds in floral arrangements, the reverse enamelled with red floral sprays on a white ground and within a light blue border
2 1/2 x 1 5/8in. (6.2 x 4cm.) each

Provenance

With Horowitz & Cie, Geneva, 1987, from whom purchased by the present owner

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The combination of teardrop diamonds on a vibrant green ground, together with a reverse of red and green flowers reserved against white and the turquoise banding, is similar to a flask in the Khalili Collection (Pedro Moura Carvalho, Gems and Jewels of Mughal India, Oxford, 2010, no.116, p.220). The lid of that flask is secured by a thin chain, and it is likely that similar chains would have attached these elements to one another to make up a full necklace. Another pair of triangular enamelled and diamond-set necklace elements, though older in date, can be found in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (LNS 10 Ja,b, published in Manuel Keene and Salam Kaoukji, Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals, London, 2001, no.6.22, p. 70).

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