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Yemeni? Indian?

Posted by Ethnic Embellishments on May 20, 2011 at 9:59pm
This is a solid color necklace with hints of Jewish Yemeni work and Indian design elements. Any ideas?
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  • Alaa eddine SAGID May 20, 2011 at 11:14pm

    beautiful and very intricate work!

     

    right now i am thinking of pakistan or orth west india (gujarat, kashmir, punjab..)

    it is only an intuition

     

    but if you look at the little hanging empty circles (not the ones with filigree flowers inside)....at the junction with the bail there is a tiny embossed pellet

     

    i have already seen this detail in the jewellery of the region

     

  • Joost Daalder May 23, 2011 at 7:02pm

    I too would have thought Pakistan or thereabouts - most certainly not Yemen, where the workmanship would be very much more refined and concerned with minutiae.

     

  • Isabel Iglesias July 14, 2011 at 11:03pm

    Hello Hillary!

    To me it looks more Indian than Yemenite...Just guessing!

  • Patricia Deany July 15, 2011 at 12:25am
    Kind of late to the party here. The torque shape hints of Pakistan, the little dangles of Yemen. So, Probably Pakistan
  • Joost Daalder July 15, 2011 at 3:43am
    Hilllary, - I like Patti's reasoning, and had already previously suggested "Pakistan of thereabouts". I think we cannot be far wrong if you settle for Pakistan - on balance by far the likeliest source.
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