Fatimid Metal Work of Egypt Egyptian metal work made during the Fatimid period consists of jewelry and a small group of bronze animals. Fatimid jewelry is relatively rare. Outstanding examples are in the Harari collection the Arab Museum, Cairo, and the Benaki Museum, Athens. Three fine pieces, a pair of earrings and a crescent-shaped pendant of about the middle of the eleventh century, are in the Metropolitan Museum. Their decoration is in filigree technique in which gold wires, straight and braided from a geometrical design in openwork. The pendant is enriched with a turquoise stone and polychrome decoration of two birds in cloisonne enamel, a technique popular in Egypt during the Fatimid era.
