A GEM-SET PENDANT, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY |

the pendant designed as a central flower set with foil-backed gemstones, the reverse with repousse gilt decoration, purple string for attaching, in leather box stamped Dibdin & Co. Ltd., 189 Sloane Street, S.W.1. 

Possibly Patrick Carnegy (1825-1886);
thence by descent to Lady Smith

One gem-set 'petal' detached but present in the box so could be fixed, minor scratches to the semi-precious stones, the later string in condition consistent with its age, as viewed. The weight of the pendant is 12.9gr.
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The small hook on the lower side of the pendant indicates that probably there was a gem-bead hanging there. The design and technique, a stylised flower with semi-precious stones worked in kundan technique over a gold or gilt base, goes back to the seventeenth century and was popular both in Mughal North India as well as in the Deccan. Similar pendants, slightly earlier in date, are now in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum (see M. Keene and S. Kaoukji, Treasury of the World, Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals, London, 2001, pp.26-27).