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Lot 36
Two Golden Horde repoussé gold Fittings Central Asia, 13th Century(2)
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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Two Golden Horde repoussé gold Fittings
Central Asia, 13th Century
Central Asia, 13th Century
the first of spherical form, engraved and decorated in repoussé with a band of scrolling foliate motifs, flanked by bands of circle motifs; the second of elongated triangular form decorated in repoussé with foliate vines, on a necklace of carnelian beads
the larger 4.4 cm. long(2)
the larger 4.4 cm. long(2)
Footnotes
The chased decoration and workmanship of the gold fittings can be compared to 13th century Central Asian belt fittings in the Khalili Collection (accession no. JLY 1012 A,B) and illustrated in M. Spink, The Art of Adornment: Jewellery of the Islamic Lands Part 2, The Nasser Khalili Collection of Islamic Art Vol. XVII, 2006, nos. 303 and 304, pg. 400.
Closely related examples were discovered in the northern Caucasus at Gashun-Usta and in the Talas Valley in Kyrgyztan which are currently in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. One of these excavated belt fittings bears the tamgha (heraldic emblem) of the Batu family, the founder of the Golden Horde khanate.