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| Keywords: Yemeni - Bracelet - Walters 572318 - View A.jpg The chased bracelet is made of a larger 2/3 and a smaller piece 1/3 that together form a hollow ring which is held together by a clasp The design depicts fourleaf clovers six on the larger piece and three on the smaller piece of the ring The lower rim has twenty-two loops each with a ring - twenty with three-dimensional drop-shaped pendants one with a two dimensional drop-shaped pendant and one with a rosette-shaped pendant The inside of the bracelet has an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler al-Mahdi The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al- Abbas makes it likely that the pendants were produced under his reign from AH 1161-1189 AD 1748-1775 In addition the name of the silversmith is engraved in Hebrew xxx Iraqi The first name is lost but the supplement Iraqi clarifies that he or his family came from originally from Iraq 1161-1189 AH/AD 1748-1775 silver with gilding Outer diam cm 7 ; Inner diam 1 7/8 x W 13/16 in 4 8 x 2 1 cm accession number 57 2318 80922 Mr Benjamin Zucker Zucker Family Trust and Mr Derek Content New York and London by purchase Walters Art Museum Joint gift to the Walters Art Museum Baltimore and the Israel Museum Jerusalem by Mr Benjamin Zucker and Mr Derek Content in honor of Mrs Barbara Zucker and Mrs Amanda Content 2010 Stamp Arabic al-Mahdi Engraving Hebrew xxx 'Iraqi place of origin northern Yemen Walters Art Museum license Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum South Arabian art in the Walters Art Museum Art of Yemen Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
