Choose Category:

Home > Auctions > 2nd December 2011 > Islamic Gold and Turquoise Bird Bracelet

Print page | Email lot to a friend

Back to previous page


Use mousewheel to zoom in and out, click to enlarge
Gallery loading...

LOT 0980

Sold for (Inc. bp): £863

ISLAMIC GOLD AND TURQUOISE BIRD BRACELET
(Gold and turquoise, 42 grams, 81 mm.).

Circa 12th century AD or later. A medieval Islamic sheet-gold expanding bracelet formed as a c-shaped band with a hinged upper section; the band with terminals formed as an opposed pair of birds with turquoise details in cells (eyes, wings, tail).

PROVENANCE:
Property of a Middlesex Gentleman; acquired in the early 1980's.

CONDITION