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Actually looks like it is from Multan in Pakistan.
Maybe, sometimes I find it difficult to distinguish them, enamel indeed Multan characteristics, but sometimes Bukhara also made it , I think Multan is good at geometric patterns change, but they prefer to use a single dark blue, While others do more colorful enamel
Well, multan rings use both blue and green- also the colors light blue and red . This is the exact shape and design and pattern and colors of other rings designated as Multan.
I second Multan.
There is a little pendant like this at www.kashgar.com.au. Also Bukhara.
Thanks for identifying the pendant, Waqar. I must admit I had a vested interest. I have a very old necklace from Afghanistan which has two small, ancient, colourless pendants, full of holes, one at each side. Last year I was examining the necklace with an LED lamp and discovered tiny spots of green and blue on these pendants... great excitement! Now I know they are older versions of the one you identified. So they are still being made!
The earlier Multan enamel was made in this way using a champleve technique. Blue and green were the most frequently used colours. The later Multan enamel is most frequently all over a lapis colour blue with a flat ground surface. In this case the basic metal is die-stamped to facilitate speedier and less skilled production.
Thelma, have you shown a photo of the necklace you mention?
Hi Frankie. No I haven't shown it and unfortunately no longer have it. It was an enormous and beautiful necklace which I decided to have framed in a box for my daughter, for an important birthday. And now it is no longer even in the UK.
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