Lot 300
A pair of Seljuk gold Bangles Persia or Greater Syria, 11th/ 12th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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Persia or Greater Syria, 11th/ 12th Century
Persia or Greater Syria, 11th/ 12th Century
each with clasp of cartouche-shaped, with granulation and four groups of three hemispheres, the shanks of plaited gold wire bands tapering towards the clasp
each 7.5 cm. max. diam.(2)
each 7.5 cm. max. diam.(2)
Footnotes
Finds of bracelets comprising graduated plaited wire bands were made in Syria (Al-'Ush, Abu'l-Faraj, Musee Nationale de Damas, Départment des Antiquites Islamiques, Damascus, 1976, p. 207, fig. 118). It has also been reported that in Gurgan, in Northern Iran, bracelets of this type have been found (M. Jenkins and M. Keene, Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 22). For another comparable example see Christie's, Islamic Art, Manuscripts and Printed Books of Iranian Interest, London, 19th April 1999, p. 200, lot 470.