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Thanx Hillary, the red stones are glass, possibly two are garnets.
The granulation reminds me of Uighur workmanship.... dangles do not look like traditional Uzbek style work, though the general style of long, twisted wrap-around wires does. Something is telling me that the dangles are maybe an addition...? Does the granulation size on the bottom beads match that of the pendant- I am assuming it is granulated.... I would like some close-ups & side and back views, if possible. Kazakhstan has lots of granulation too, right?
I see the loops on the middle sides too. It seems that this was part of some other, larger piece.
Thanx again.
There is an outstanding wear on the long bail on top but you got it rignt that there two side loops but actually i think they were meant to hold similar dangles but were removed to allow for a more confy wear: matter of fact the former owner has soldered a wintage pin on the back to use as a brooch.
The lower dangles (wired hollow silver beads) do have slightly bigger grannulation though.
The overall feel is indeed quite central asian and in any case the turquoise color shade is very much persian (as Marlene pointed out on my facebook page).
There is an extraordinary refinement that spills from it and i believe it is quite an old piece taht was part of a larger necklace/piece.
Thanx again for your input
On a closer look, grannulation on the dangles are matching with those framing the pendant's body between to side loops and top bail.
Grannulation laid on the surface is way tinier
Whatever happened precisely here, I think the piece is most impressive, particularly in the way the super-fine granulation is combined with the robust effect of the stones.
It seems that concensus between friends who saw it on my facebook leans towards Uzbekistan with one of them even posted a complete necklace in which a similar pendant is used as the central part in a collar-style way
The complete necklace is from Priti Chaudhari
It greatly helps to see the whole necklace, Alaa. And yes, I too would have thought Uzbekistan is the most likely place of origin - particularly now that I see the whole piece.
At last mystery solved. Lynn has provided us on facebook with a set of postcards from Armenia with one showing a choker using many elements like this very one.
So it is an Armenian piece. With many thanx to all of you
Wonderful work on Lynn's part, for which thanks! And without "the new technology", where would we be? It is amazing to see how much more knowledge about pieces like this has been gathered and distributed worldwide during even the last five years. "Ethnic jewellery" is a very difficult subject, with many pieces not widely known outside specific cultures, and hard to identify (partly because the subject is under-researched). Even if someone worked out a solution for a problem like this from hard copy (for example), it still would have taken others usually years to learn about the discovery. And, in truth, without firm knowledge such as Lynn has now provided, there was no alternative to educated guessing if you had not seen something really close.
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