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Full photo of the Buckharan neckpiece for a horse

Posted by Joost Daalder on July 1, 2011 at 3:14pm

This picture should be related to the one which focuses on the central amulet (and which thus is actually a detail of this image). While this is a large piece, and definitely was used to decorate and protect (through the amulet) a horse, yet larger examples are known, not with a length of around 90 cm as this one has, but more like 140 cm tall! Silver-gilt; small pieces of turquoise; late 19th c.

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