PROBABLY CAIRO, EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID ENAMELLED GOLD PENDANT
PROBABLY CAIRO, EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY
Of crescent shape, the enamel plaque with a red, yellow, and blue quatrefoil rosette on a green field with a scrolling vine, set into a gold mount, in a border of S-shaped wires, the interstices nielloed, small granules along the edges, the points of the crescent supporting an empty gemstone mount, with six suspension loops around the outside, the reverse plain
1 ¼ x 1 1/8in. (3.1 x 2.8cm.)

Provenance

Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Luzern (Inv. no. K 726H)
Private Collection, Luzern, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

Literature

Sammlung E. und M. Kofler Truniger, Luzern, Zürich 1964, p.131, no.1093

Exhibited

Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Kunsthaus Zurich, 7 June-2 August 1964, no.1093

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Lot Essay

The overall form, together with the enamelled design centred around a rosette, is similar in many ways to an example which sold at Sotheby's London, 5 October 2020, lot 71. Even closer in terms of enamel work is an example in the Khalili Collection, which also has a similar palmette (Michael Spink and Jack Ogden, The Art of Adornment, Jewellery of the Islamic Lands Part One, Oxford, 2013, p.146, no.55).

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