A Copper-inlaid Equestrian Silver Pectoral, Golden Horde, 13th-14th Century

the hollow body of crescent form with six triangular pendants, the exterior faceted with engraved and inlaid decoration, with a central foliate medallion surrounded by cartouches and bands filled with vegetal scrolls and inscriptions, the reverse pierced with three openwork roundels, the terminals with further faceted and engraved decoration with an attached openwork palmette loop, with undeciphered inscriptions

Patination and minor dents, small areas of splitting to left section, palmette fitting missing to lefthand terminal, as viewed
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A closely related example in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, is attributed to "Transoxiana, 13th century" (see Kalter, J. and M. Pavaloi (eds.), Uzbekistan. Heirs to the Silk Road, London, 1997, p.125, fig.205). Similar engraved vegetal scrolls are found on a gold engraved repoussé amulet case in the State Hermitage Museum, Golden Horde, fourteenth century, see Komaroff and Carboni 2002, p.71, fig.74.