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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 425364, member: 2844&quot;]This is a classic Persian ewer, just like the ones in the links already posted. Both Arab and Kazakh styles are entirely different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kazakh style, chunky, with a lot of granulation, and often glass inlay partly covered by more granulation:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]148741[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Kazakhs also gilded areas between the granulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only Arabs in the old Russian Empire were traders and the occasional immigrant, btw. No Russian Arab tribal silversmiths. In fact it was the other way around, many silversmiths in the Arab world were Armenians, either from the Russian, Persian or Turkish dominated parts of Armenia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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