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Beautiful find, Preethi. Unfortunately I can't help much... my guess would be Syrian/Levantine or Iraq?
Oh my! It is even more gorgeous in these photographs, how lucky you are. It must look wonderful on. My guess is that this is from around Turkey but not within Turkey... from Greece or Syria.
Argument in favor of Syria is the overall structure of the necklace with the cylinder and triangle amulets and how they are arranged.
Argument in favor of Greece is the masses of tiny corals which appear on old Ottoman-influenced Greek jewelry. I have not seen a lot of coral on Syrian jewelry.
The round disc filigree dangles could go either way, they appear on both. The end dangles with lots of tiny loops, I am starting to think are from Greek jewelry but don't have perfect evidence.
If I had to vote I would say Greece but I would not be surprised by Syria.
Fantastic!
Thanks all. Lynn, I don't think my photo, particularly the one showing the full piece, does the necklace justice. And yes, it is wonderful to wear too.
Thanks also for narrowing down the necklace's area of origin. I can see this as coming from the Balkans, and now that you mention it, think that I came across similar pendants of coiled silver recently. Will have to go through my bookmarks to find that source again.
Dear Preethi; Oh, you are lucky!!! This necklaces is gorgeous! There are several Ottoman elements on it but I agree with Lynn that it is not from Turkey but also not from the Balkan. I would allocate it to Kurdistan - either Syria or Iraq. I have Kurdish necklaces with the same overall structure but especially also the filigree circles, which used to have a coral or other bead each in the small circle. A beauty to be cherished! With kind regards. Peter
Preethi if you find a source for the little coiled pendants I would love to know because I have a necklace with them which I think is at least partially Greek (it was reassembled.)
Thanks for your feedback on this necklace Peter. I would love for this to be from Kurdistan! It would be my first piece from that region.
Lynn, the image I had in mind was a pair of Greek earrings from the V&A collections. Please see http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O147014/earrings-unknown/ . The coiled beads are not exactly the same, but a similar technique seems to have been employed. The photo is also below for your reference.
So lovely and delicate, Preethi. I haven't seen many of the elements before but they are charming.
Preethi that's a fantastic reference and those beads are using the same technique. The kirdan I have where the coiled beads appear definitely has Greek elements.