Four gold turquoise-set gold filigree fittings, Golden Horde, Central Asia, 13th-14th century, the lozenge-shaped panels each of box construction, delicately worked in filigree with scrolling motifs and rosettes around enclosures for turquoise cabochons, the reverse of plain solid gold with holes for stitching, one turquoise deficient, each 2.4cm. high, each approx. 3 grams, total weight 11grams (4) Provenance: Private collection London formed in the 1980s The above pieces are exquisite examples of the jewellery of the Golden Horde; Mongols who under the leadership of Genghis Khan's son Juchi established their centre of power in the lower Volga and Crimea in the second half of the thirteenth century. The Treasure of Niezatski, a collection of jewellery recovered in the Crimea, contains several comparative pieces dating from the same era, displaying identical box construction (see Kramarovsky, M.G. "Niezatski Treasure: Crimea and Asia Minor in the 14th Century, Bizantiya I blizxhni Vostok Gosudarstvennugo Ermitazha, XLVII, St Petersburg, 1994). Please refer to department for condition report