A POLYCHROME-PAINTED ENAMELLED GILT PENDANT WITH A QAJAR BEAUTY
Qajar Iran, 19th century

The pendant in the shape of a cusped palmette or escutcheon, caparisoned on the lower border with seed pearls and with a small hoop at the top fitted with a braided silver lace and metal hook, the front decorated with a portrait of a Qajar beauty in polychromes flanked by two pink birds at the top, the back with a lush floral bloom featuring a large pink rose, blue daises, hyacinths, and foliage, and a pair of similar birds at the top, the pendant 5cm long.

Two almost identical Qajar polychrome-painted enamel pendants with portraits of a pining lady and Mother and Child were once part of the same collection and successfully sold in these Rooms, 22 July 2020, lot 88, and 29 April 2022, lot 43.