AN ANTIQUE SPINEL, RUBY AND DIAMOND SARPECH
AN ANTIQUE SPINEL, RUBY AND DIAMOND SARPECH

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AN ANTIQUE SPINEL, RUBY AND DIAMOND SARPECH
The turban ornament set with spinel beads, circular ruby cabochons, rounded and mixed-shape table-cut diamonds, diamond taveez beads, foil, gold and silver, 7 7/8 ins., mid to late 19th century
Literature
Jaffer 2013, p. 215, ill. p. 271, no. 89
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014, p. 66
The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, pp. 128-29, no. 95
Grand Palais, Paris 2017, p. 231, no. 171
The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p. 249, no. 170
The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, p. 268, no. 174
de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2018, p. 122, no. 55
Engraved
On two of the spinels: 12 Shah Jahan [son] of Jahangir Shah 1049

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