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Lot 135
  • 135

A Qajar gold and enamelled necklace and earrings, Persia, 19th century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • gold and enamel
comprising a gold necklace with two hanging pendants each composed of an oval diamond-set frame featuring an enamelled portrait of a young male and female figure, each with a hanging roundel framing an enamelled face, the earrings made up of two domed elements and a pendant drop, decorated with polychrome enamel flowers and fringed with seed pearls

Condition

the pendants possibly set on a later gold chain, the earrings in good condition, some minor sections of enamel missing, as viewed.
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