An Islamic Gold and Garnet Necklace

Circa 9th-11th Century A.D.

Length 17 inches (43.18 cm); High karat gold; 51.5 dwt.

Provenance:

Mehdi Mahboubian (1921-2005), New York and London.

Patti Cadby Birch Collection (1923-2007), New York, acquired from the above in the 1940s-1970s.

Important Private Collection, New Jersey, acquired from the above in the 1970s.

For similar necklaces see F. Falk, Jewelry From Persia: The Collection of Patti Birch (Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim Exhibition Catalogue), 1974, nos. 112, 113.

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Jewelry Through the Ages: Ancient to Neoclassical

An Islamic Gold and Garnet Necklace

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