A POLYCHROME-PAINTED ENAMELLED GOLD PENDANT WITH MOTHER AND CHILD
Qajar Iran, 19th century

The gold 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, the front decorated with a classical Mother and Child composition in polychromes, the arrangement and child's features influenced by Christian iconographic standard and models in Western paintings of the same subject, the back with a stylised gol o bolbol composition featuring a bird amidst a lush floral bouquet with blossomed roses and buds, hanging from a later-fitted 18ct gold chain stamped 750, the pendant 4.3cm long, 16gr.