As she explains, Indian jewellery from the Mughal and Deccan courts is some of the finest ever produced and, rarity makes it particularly soughtafter when it comes onto the market. Seventeenth century Mughal jewellery is like “gold dust” and nowadays 19th century examples are increasingly scarce.
The earliest jewellery includes exquisite pieces made for the Mughal emperors, featuring priceless stones such as Burmese rubies and Golconda diamonds (the Golconda mines were the earliest diamond-producing mines in the world).
There are outstanding collections of Indian jewellery in the Qatar Museum and the Al Sabah Collection in Kuwait.
Indian jewellery is also of course highly wearable and not necessarily expensive. Samina will be offering a range of pieces at the fair, priced from as little as $1000 and rising into six figures.
Highlights include a spectacular 18th century Mughal Golconda necklace from Hyderabad and a pair of 18th century Mughal columbian emerald armbands.
She will also be exhibiting a selection of vintage photographs of princely India and princely robes.
Susan Ollemans Oriental Art from London is also participating in the fair. Susan has traded in Oriental works of art in London since 1979, specialising in 17th-19th century Indian jewellery. She too sells to private and museum clients around the world.
She will be showing pieces such as jewelled Mughal boxes and gold boxes, a fly whisk set with precious stones, turban ornaments, jewelled dagger handles and fighting knives of steel inlaid with gold among other pieces.
One of her most important exhibits is a champlevé-enamelled gold bracelet, kundan set with diamonds and Basra pearls, made in Hyderabad circa 1720. This example is very similar to another in the Al-Sabah collection in Kuwait.
Haughton International Fairs are renowned for attracting highly-sophisticated audiences to their fairs in New York and London, with the collectors who frequent their fairs being the most knowledgeable, and visitors to Art and Antiques Dubai promise to be no exception.
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