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Vintage Persian &
Middle East Turquoise Jewelry Examples
Gold and turquoise beads
from a necklace, 19th-early 20th century Saudi Arabia
Fabricated from sheet, wire, and swaged wire, decorated with granulation,
set with turquoise; Max. L. of bead 1 3/5 in. (4.05 cm), Max. Diam.
4/5 in. (2 cm)
Further confirming the Arabian Peninsula as a region rich in the tradition
of jewelry art are these remarkable hollow gold and turquoise beads
from a necklace that was probably completed by additional sections of
beads, most likely turquoise bead and coral beads, somewhat irregularly
shaped. These beads might have been considered medieval were it not
for their place of origin and the corroborating evidence of the origin
of related types. While these beads have distinctive individual features
not known on medieval pieces (most notably, the large set turquoises),
analogies-particularly of form-with earlier pieces are obvious. The
granulation work and the overall technical control of these gold and
turquoise beads are of such high quality, and their design of such classical
proportions, that we may well wonder whether they represent the survival
of an as-yet-unknown medieval type.
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