Amulet AND Hand of Fatima - GREATEST INDIAN GOLDEN TREASURES COLLECTION 2017

Amulet, late 17th to early 18th century, cornelian inscribed and jade inlaid with gold and inset with emeralds and rubies, From India, 3.2cm x 4.1cm. © Ashmolean Museum, University
of Oxford.

Finial in the shape of the ‘Hand of Fatima’, late 18th to early 19th century, gold on a

lac core with rubies, emeralds, diamonds and pearls, probably

from Hyderabad, India. H. 11.8cm. Nasser D Khalili Collection, London.

© Nour Foundation. Courtesy of the Khalili Family Trust.

WORLDS GREATEST ART TREASURES 2017

Bottle decorated with Christian scenes, glass with gold and
enamel, mid-13th century. 28.2cm × 17.8cm. Furusiyya
Art Foundation.

Glass of Charlemagne, glass with gold and enamel, gilded silver, second half of the 12th century (glass); 13th-14th century
(mount). 24cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres.

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1891, oil painting by John
William Waterhouse. 175cm × 92cm. Gallery Oldham, Oldham.

Set of 12 coins of Emperor Jahangir with signs of the Zodiac, 1618-23, gold, from Agra, India. Diameters 2cm–2.1cm.
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Calligraphic finial in the shape of a dragon, late 17th to early 18th
century, brass, from Golconda, India. 18cm x 10.7cm.
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

ANCIENT GOLDEN TREASURES COLLECTION 2017

BENAKI MUSEUM, ATHENS

ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

Mosque lamp of Sultan Barquq, glass, colourless with brown 
tinge; blown, applied blown foot and handles, enamelled
and gilded, circa 1382–99. 37.1cm × 24.4cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Chasse of Ambazac, gilded copper, champlevé enamel, rock crystal, semi-precious stones, faience and glass; wood core, 1180-90. 79cm × 26.2cm × 58.6cm. Mairie d’Ambazac.

Jewish wedding ring, gold, with enamel, first half of the 14th century. 4.8cm × 2.4cm × 2.4cm. Thüringisches Landesamt für
Denkmalpflege und Archäologie.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL WONDERS - WORLD GREATEST TREASURES COLLECTION 2017

Denmark’s oldest gold Viking crucifix

1. The Aunslev cross, gold, decorated with gold threads and pellets, first half of the 10th century. H. 4.1cm.
2. The reverse side.

Mina’i bowl with a majlis in a garden, stonepaste, glazed in
opaque white, in-glaze and overglaze-painted,
late 12th-early 13th century, Iran. H. 8.1cm. D. 21cm. B

Camel container, stonepaste, glazed and lustre-painted, late 12th-early 13th century, Iran, probably Kashan. H. 39.5cm. D. 24.9cm. © Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London.

Pharmaceutical box, engraved silver inlaid with niello, 11th-12th century, Iran or Afghanistan. 1.9cm x 2cm x 7.5cm.
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart/A Dreyer.