Friday, October 4, 2013

A Pair of Qajar Enameled Gold Earrings

Earrings.
Era: Qajar Period, Persia.
Date: 19th Century.
Material: Enameled gold.
Size: 10 cm high.
Sold on Bonhams.
Source: [1]

Each of these earrings is in the form of a hemisphere decorated with pink, green, blue and white enamel in floral designs with birds, surmounted by a smaller ribbed hemisphere similarly enameled, seed pearls suspended from each hemisphere; with a pendant drop with seed pearls and glass beads, with suspension loops.