9 août 2013

AN OTTOMAN ENAMELLED AND GEM-SET BUCKLE, TURKEY, CIRCA 1700. Photo courtesy Sotheby's each of lobed medallion form, the central rosette enamelled with detailed floral motifs and raised gem-set peak comprising lasque and table-cut diamonds, rubies and emeralds, bordered by seven smaller red, green and white enamelled flower-heads with a gem-set tip; 9cm. each. diam. Lot Sold: 30,000 GBPNOTE: The 'bejewelled aesthetic' in Ottoman art has been commented on previously (Petsopoulos 1982, pp.21-2). This magnificent belt-buckle... [Lire la suite]

A RARE MUGHAL GEM-SET JADE-HILTED DAGGER (PESHKABZ), NORTH WEST INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY. Photo courtesy Sotheby's the tapering curved watered-steel blade with broad flattened back chiselled and overlaid in gold with a pendant palmette, the dark-green jade pistol-grip hilt inlaid with scrolling tendrils of gold issuing floral rosettes, buds and leaves kundun-set with cabochon rubies and cut diamonds, velvet-covered wood scabbard; 40.5cm. Lot Sold: 73,250 GBPPROVENANCE: ex-Collection Robin Wigington, Stratford-upon-Avon,... [Lire la suite]

A RARE MUGHAL GEM-SET GOLD SPOON, INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY. Photo courtesy Sotheby's the shallow bowl delicately inlaid on the reverse with a lotus rosette comprised of radiating foil-backed diamond petals and rubies, the faceted tapering shaft inlaid with emeralds and bands of ruby quatrefoils within an engraved and chiselled gold framework, gold lotus bud terminal; 14.5cm. Lot Sold: 409,250 GBP NOTE: This spoon is comparable to the magnificent early-seventeenth-century spoon in the Victoria and Albert Museum (VAM 173-1910).... [Lire la suite]

AN INDIAN GEM-SET GILT-METAL CASKET WITH BIRD-HEAD FINIAL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY. Photo courtesy Sotheby's of domed cylindrical form, wholly set with cut rubies, emeralds and diamonds, the four short feet designed as animal paws, the finial in the form of a parrot or falcon head, the cover fitted to the base with twist-lock opening smoothly to reveal plain interior; 7.5cm. height 5cm. diam. Lot Sold: 12,500 GBPSotheby's. Arts of The Islamic World. London | 06 Apr 2011 - www.sothebys.com

Archer's thumb-ring, 18th century. AF.2339. © The Trustees of the British Museum Central ornament resembles an inverted palmette. Set with rubies in leaf-shaped gold settings around the upper edge; two floral sprays formed of inset rubies and emeralds around the sides, connected by stems of inlaid gold and diverging from the ornament in the middle of the front. Jade, inlaid with gold and inset with rubies and emeralds.  Archery was held in high esteem throughout the Islamic world. Thumb-rings have been used by archers... [Lire la suite]

A GEM-SET JADE ARCHER'S RING, INDIA, CIRCA 1800. Photo courtesy Sotheby's the pale grey jade of typical form inlaid with foliate gold tendrils issuing kundan-set buds and flowerheads of emerald and ruby encircling a central cut-diamond; 4.5cm. Lot Sold: 5,000 GBPSotheby's. Arts of The Islamic World. London | 06 Apr 2011 - www.sothebys.com

A RARE LAMPAS FRAGMENT, INDIA, 15TH-16TH CENTURY. Photo Sotheby's woven with a lattice of petalled ogees alternating in offset rows, each containing paired confronting makaras and yalis arranged symmetically round floral rosettes and roundels;59 by 35.2cm. Lot Sold: 8,500 GBP NOTE: This fragment belongs to a rare group of early silks from India, that are woven with a distinctive palette and technique of lac red main warps, pink or red binding warps, red ground wefts, and yellow, white, and either blue, green or turquoise pattern... [Lire la suite]

A SILK SAMIT TEXTILE FRAGMENT, NEAR EAST (?), 12TH CENTURY OR EARLIER. Photo Sotheby's the fragment woven with red and cream silk threads with horizontal registers of winged horses in convoy; 50.5 by 26cm. Lot Sold: 25,000 GBPNOTE: This textile is derived ultimately from a Sasanian stylisation of the classical Pegasus motif. Similar winged horses appear on an early eighth-century silk fragment in the Horyu-ji, Nara, Japan (Hayashi 1975, no. 82) and a seventhcentury Central Asian textile illustrated in Hali, July 2006, fig. 4.... [Lire la suite]

Fabergé Luda necklace with round and pear cut diamonds and an emerald set in white gold, from Les Danses Fantasques collection. Fabergé Luda earrings with round and pear cut diamonds, egg-shaped emeralds and an elegant bow motif, set in white gold from Les Danses Fantasques collection. Fabergé Aurora emerald and white diamond bracelet from Les Danses Fantasques collection. Fabergé Aurora emerald and white diamond drop earrings, set in platinum, from Les Danses Fantasques collection.