Sale 2581
London, South Kensington
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7 October 2011
Price realised
GBP 2,250
Estimate
A GROUP OF MOROCCAN SILVER-GILT JEWELLED ORNAMENTS MOROCCO, LATE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY Including three pendants, two fibulas, five earrings, two small roundel fittings and a fragmentary necklace, each with enamelled decoration and/or inset with gem stones and/or glass beads, three earrings with Moroccan silver marks Largest pendant 4 3/8in. (11cm.) long; largest bracelet 2¾in. (7cm.) diam. (13)
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The earrings included in this group are called khras kbach or ram's horns because of the triangular decorative element applied above the rosette. A number of similar pieces are published in Marie-Rose Rabaté and André Goldenberg, op.cit., p.40.
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