A VERY RARE PAIR OF ANCIENT ISLAMIC SELJUK NIELLO AND PARCEL-GILT SILVER BRACELETS Central Asia or Persia,Circa 11th/12th Century.of cylindrical section, composed of a piece of silver sheet fastening, decorated with a large roundelcontaining a palmette interlace, and two further half roundels containing the same design, with Both Sides registers of kuficinscription. FOOTNOTESThe inscription consists of benedictory words in both cursive and kufic.each of Armlets decorated in nielloto the centres with cartouches containing quadrupeds surrounded by knot motif, near the claps with cartouches containing aninterlace of palmettes and other foliate motifs, the sides with niello inscriptions in floreated kufic FOOTNOTESInscriptions:al-barakah wa al-yumn wa al-surur wa, 'Blessing and good-fortune and joy and'[...]The inscriptions on the present lot are similar instyle to those on a silver niello flask in The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (see Linda Komaroff, Gifts of the Sultan, NewHaven, 2011, p. 41, Fig. 33). For a pair of bracelets attributed to 11th Century Syria decorated with animals in a similar repoussétechnique, see Rachel Hasson, Early Islamic Jewellery, Jerusalem, 1987, p. 69, no. 81.

Extremely Fine Quality