"Rosette form with granulation on the pointed outer petals around natural rounded inner petals and an inset garnet, the whole supported by a twisted wire frame with beaded rosettes at the corners.

Two examples with suspended pendants, likely from the same workshop as the present lot, are held in the Victoria & Albert Museum, see Stronge et al., A Golden Treasury, London, 1988, nos. 3 &6 and Barnard, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection, London, 2008, p.116, pl.6.12. Additionally, a similar gold ornament with granulated petals, contained within a schist casket, was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 19 March 2008, lot 267."

Bonhams

Provenance:

Private U.S. Collection