A rare large Timurid/ early Safavid jade Pendant - Persia, 15th/ 16th Century

of cusped pentagon form, in spinach green, incised and inlaid with gold, one side with an inscription-filled central roundel surrounded by floral bands, the other side with a cusped diamond-shaped rosette filled with floral and foliate motifs surrounded by floral bands and flanked by two floral rosettes, twelve holes pierced around the sides  7.8 x 8 cm. - Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000

Exhibited: L’Art Iranien dans les Collections Belges, Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, 10th November until 19th December 1971.

Note: The names of the Twelve Imams are inscribed in the central roundel.

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