Four silver bracelets and a golden earring, from the residence of Abu Rubin, residence of the ancestors of the Sassoon family in Baghdad. Baghdad, [17th century].
Paper labels titled by hand by the collector David Solomon Sassoon are attached to the bracelets and the earring. Written on the bracelets' label - "Bracelets for girls, three hundred years old, from the residence of Abu Rubin, residence of my ancestors in Baghdad. I brought them from there in 1911". On the label attached to the earring: "Old earring from the residence of Abu Rubin in Baghdad, 1911".
The residence of Abu Rubin in Baghdad was the residence of Sheikh Sassoon Saleh David Ya'akov - father of David Sassoon the first (grandfather of David Solomon Sassoon), which was named after his son, Reuven, who died in a plague in 1802.
Bracelets: approx. 5X5 cm, earring: approx. 1.5 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Sassoon family collection.