GEM-SET METAL BRIDAL DIADEM SAMARKAND, 19TH CENTURY of semi-circular and tapering form, the gilt metal filigree openwork ground set with coloured glass, turquoises, fringed with quartz suspension pendants (14.5cm wide) Qty: (1) Provenance: Private collection of a notable Ottoman family in London. The collection is from a notable Ottoman land-owning family, that married over generations into the Sultans’ court. Some were judges, civil servants and vizirs in the Damascus vilayet, as well as members of parliament to the Sublime Porte. Note: For an example in the British Museum, London, see inventory no. 2014, 60281; and for a further example previously in the Jacques Desenfans Collection, see Bonhams, 10 April 2008, lot 57.