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My new necklace just arrived so had to share it with you.
An extremely beautiful necklace Marie..thank you for sharing
Thank you Amir, can you conferm it is Multan??
Very elegant necklace!
Marie-Ange, I do believe that your name will now be synonymous with "Multan enamel" just as Patti's is with "Meknes pendants"! Speaking of Multan, here is an an eBay item to enjoy: 160752289071. The seller is from Germany and has many Multan enamel items from the belt to bazuband to necklaces. Some of the silverwork in the pieces looks distinctly different than most Multan enamel I've seen. While they (such as the belt) appear old, it's difficult to confirm actual age without first hand inspection.
Hi Hillary, thanks, Frankie and me are the Multan babes!!
Yes I have purchased Bazubands from that seller, am waiting for them to arrive.
In the past this seller had nice traditional Multan necklaces with 3 square pendants, have bought from hime before. Also bought my big Multan ring with carnelian stone from him.
Congratulations, Marie-Ange,
This will look great on you! Oddly enough, I have some hollow beads from Afghanistan with that same repousse design as the round pendants.
Thanks Anna, well I am not 100% sure this is Multan but the blue and green enamel looked so nice to wear with the rest I have. The seller picked it up in the 70's in Pakistan but that is no guarantee.
This really is a most interesting necklace. Amir, where are you? Can you tell us if this is Multan enamel ?
Thanks for the recognition, M-A. This other Multan babe will be posting some pics of more Multan enamel tomorrow.
@ Marie-Ange first, and then @ Hillary second. Interesting and pleasing to see more pieces of this kind. @MARIE-ANGE. A very nice necklace, Marie-Ange! I should think it will be most wearable, too. The enamel has much in common with e.g. your bracelets, and seems once again different to me from the typical more uniform and more "flat" stereotypical Multan enamels, which interest me a great deal less, also because the number of pieces made that way is enormous - over the years one sees literally thousands of them, which is not the case with what you are showing here. @HILLARY: the eBay item which you show (and which is nice enough, too) does seem to me Multan, as its aesthetic is once again very different from all the ones we have been seeing with more lustrous enamels which also show more, and more powerful, colours. I continue to feel that there is a pronounced distinction between characteristic, oft-repeated. essentially blue (but flat-blue) and rather dull Multan pieces made in their thousands, and the armbands (now also this M-A necklace) which have rich, lustrous and glossy enamels with strong colours. There is also a big difference in decorative quality: many of the Multan pieces, though monotonous, have a "fussy" sort of pattern altogether missing from the other pieces, like the armbands that M-A originally bought or the ones shown by Lynn Levenberg at the time.
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