NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A DIAMOND-SET ENAMELLED GOLD NECKLACE AND BAZUBAND
NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The necklace comprising long thin elements mounted with small foil-backed diamonds with blue enamelled loops at each end, threaded on two silver-wrapped strings, each end with rounded elements similarly mounted with diamonds, the reverse plain, cord with tightening bead, the bazuband of similar design, with a loop fastening
Necklace 9 ½in. (24cm.) across; bazuband 6 5/8in. (16.8cm.) long

Provenance

Lombard Joaillier, Geneva

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Lot Essay

A pair of bazubands of similar construction are in the Khalili Collection. In the catalogue, they are attributed to Hyderabad based on the colouring of the enamelled reverse (Pedro Moura Carvalho, Gems and Jewels of Mughal India, Oxford, 2010, p.186, no.97). Examples published by Oppi Untracht, however, with a plain reverse and long narrow units, are attriuted to Rajasthan (Oppi Untracht, Traditional Jewelry of India, London, 1997, p.251, no.563). A bazuband of very similar construction is in the al-Sabah collection (acc.no.LNS 11 J).

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