Set with rubies in gold, the interior of the head set with a silver disk, the terminal with rounded flower-bud surmounted with a small ruby.

Literature: Jaffer 2013, p.62, no.28.

Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014, pp.34-35
The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, p.102, no.71
Grand Palais, Paris 2017, pp.138-39, no.106
The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p.162, no.107
The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, p.188. no.111
de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2018, p. 76, no. 22.

Note: The white enamel design on the underside is almost identical to that of a pair of earrings (karnphul) formerly in the collection of Sheikh Saoud al-Thani and now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar (Tan, 2002, no.11, pp.44-5).