Lot Essay
This pendant is recorded in the Tazi family archive as having been given in 1794. For a note on the form please see lot 331).
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FEZ, PROBABLY 1782 AD
Details
A MOROCCAN GEMSET "HAND OF FATIMA" PENDANT (KHAMSA)
FEZ, PROBABLY 1782 AD
The pendant worked with bevelled scrolling gold wire around inset stones and applied pearls, a border of sapphires around the edge, the reverse plain, suspended on multiple strands of seed-pearls joined by emeralds and melon-fluted gold beads together with other smaller stones
Pendant 3¾in. (9.4cm.) long
FEZ, PROBABLY 1782 AD
The pendant worked with bevelled scrolling gold wire around inset stones and applied pearls, a border of sapphires around the edge, the reverse plain, suspended on multiple strands of seed-pearls joined by emeralds and melon-fluted gold beads together with other smaller stones
Pendant 3¾in. (9.4cm.) long
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