Mosaic Persian Coin Necklace

Silver and 24k gold vermeil necklace

The design of this necklace is inspired by the decorations around the exterior door of a 17th century harem.

The geometric designs in Islamic art are often built on combinations of repeated squares and circles, which may be overlapped and interlaced to form intricate and complex patterns.

The complexity and variety of patterns used evolved from simple stars and lozenges in the ninth century, through a variety of 6- to 13-point patterns by the 13th century, and finally to include also 14- and 16-point stars in the sixteenth century.

These stylish necklace feature a coin with a calligraphic impression of an old Persian coin.