A Moroccan necklace, made of high quality silver. It has a large, rectangular pendant crafted in box shape below, on which a smaller pendant hangs, with two attached hand amulets (‘the hand of Fatima’). Both the lower pendants, as well as the upper end piece display a decorative yellow and green enamel each. This yellow-green enamel is typical for products made in the famous ‘jewellery town’ of Tiznit. The present necklace also consists of two chains of three strands of braided silver wire. These chains are interrupted in the middle by two large filigree made from hollow spheres, constructed from thin silver wire, as well as two sidelong, cast-silver flower pendants. The two upper end pieces that form a hook-and-eye closure (the hook is missing) also display a yellow-green enamel decoration. These end pieces, similar to both sidelong pendants and the large, lower pendants are each adorned with a central decorative stone made of underlaid red glass. This is a piece of jewellery with very old traces of use, but with no significant damage.
L: c. 30 cm (entire chain).
The lower pendant: 8 cm x 6.6 cm.
Between c. 1900 and the first third of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance:
Viennese private collection.