Bracelets de cheville Lot n° 38

Morocco, dated 1293H. (=1875-6) Pair of silver and silver-gilt peg rings. In two parts, they are hinged and closed by a pin held by a chain. Each part widens strongly at 7 cm from the hinge, forming a decreasing curve until the opening. On a silver plate are riveted gilded silver plates with openwork patterns on a red background and forming interlacing decorated with blue and green enamels; four cabochons, hollow half-spheres with a gadrooned face, are fixed by polygonal head rivets. Two rings welded on the edge receive the chains which, joined at their end by a circular ring, hold the pin. Punches of Fez to the tower and punches of ram. Diam. 10 cm B.P. : 706g. A Pair of gold and silver filigree anklets, Khalkhal, Morroco, stamped AH1293 / 1875-6AD Of typical circular form with silver flat band, exterior with alternating silver-gilt openwork enamelled panels on red background, interior with makers' stamp, chain attaching pin to center of lobed panel. This accessory is worn over the khalkhal (open ankle ring) Provenance: Collection of Mrs. R., resident in Morocco, from 1950 to 1970. References : M.R. Rabaté and A. Goldenberg, Bijoux du Maroc, 1999 - p. 202 for the hallmark. - p.48 for a close model, dated 1282H., coll. Abdelfatah Kabbaj. and p.50 for a different model, from Meknes, dated 1293H. like ours.