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Lot Essay
Comprising two sections intended to be threaded together by a string, this highly decorative ornament likely adorned the tassels of a dagger or the belt of a nobleman's patka (sash). The two part construction of bell-shaped end piece and tubular section that sits above is very similar to a gem-set and enamelled gold ornament sold in these Rooms, 31 March 2022, lot 86. Another example can be seen on a dagger illustrated in Oriental Jewellery from the Collection of the Special Treasury, The State Hermitage Department, 1984, no.111.
Although small, this very finely decorated gold ornament features a very classic and elegant Mughal design of five-petalled rosettes. The setting of pearls, which here form the ground between the rosettes, into the gold alongside the stones is less common although the combination is used to great effect in the footrest by 17th century Mughal master Sitaram, now in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (V3-728; Amin Jaffer and Amina Okada, From the Great Mughals to the Maharajas: Jewels from the al Thani Collection, Paris, 2017, cat.122, p.161).
Although small, this very finely decorated gold ornament features a very classic and elegant Mughal design of five-petalled rosettes. The setting of pearls, which here form the ground between the rosettes, into the gold alongside the stones is less common although the combination is used to great effect in the footrest by 17th century Mughal master Sitaram, now in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (V3-728; Amin Jaffer and Amina Okada, From the Great Mughals to the Maharajas: Jewels from the al Thani Collection, Paris, 2017, cat.122, p.161).