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Lot 107

An enamelled gold Perfume Sprinkler
Morocco, 18th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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An enamelled gold Perfume Sprinkler
Morocco, 18th Century

of inverted bud form with long tapering removable applicator attached to the neck by a chain, engraved and decorated in polychrome enamel with bands of interlocking ogee arcades forming petal shaped cartouches variously containing flowerheads and foliate sprays
9 cm. high approx; 54 g

Footnotes

The enamel work on this piece is of a type seen on the backs of a pair of earrings dated to 17th Century Morocco in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in M. Jenkins, Islamic Jewelry, New York, 1982, no. 75, access no. 1981.5.16,17). The champleve technique relates it in the broadest sense to most Mughal and late Indian enamelling.

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