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Hi Howah, may we know dimensions and see the other side please? This looks like a large piece, but it is difficult to tell. Thanks!
Hi Hillary,
It's identical on both sides. The piece is 1 cm thick, 14.5 cm wide and 14.5 cm long, not including the top chain.
That`s very fine indeed! Would there have been anything suspended from the two side pieces and the base?
this is a beauty Howah!
Hi, in the past most likely there were smaller pendants or decorations hanging from the loops, but these have been taken off or fallen off over time.
Very nice!
As you have already noted, howah, but others here may not have, Truus and I have a number of these pieces, all of them the same on both sides, and clearly intended for hanging (as amulets). They are very attractive and interesting. There is one of them here on the site among my photos, link https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/mongolian-amulet?context=user will bring it up. I posted others on our Facebook page "Ethnic Jewellery an Adornment".
Hi Joost,
You are lucky to own a few of these large amulets and those in your collection are very beautiful too. I ended up returning this piece and exchanged it for a few smaller Mongolian enameled pendants.
I think that the Mongolian pendant may have been the first of your collection I saw...It is indeed something magical.
https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/mongolian-amulet
for those who have not seen the piece belonging to Joost
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