ATTRIBUTED TO BOUCHERON: AN ENAMEL AND GEM-SET COMMEMORATIVE PENDANT, CIRCA 1911
The finely pierced openwork pendant of spherical form, set with three horizontal bands, the upper and lower bands in red enamel and inscribed 'Madras Camp' and 'Delhi Durbar', the central band set with rose-cut diamonds denoting the date 1911 in Roman numerals, with cabochon amethyst detail and drop, with chain, unmarked, length 1 5/8 in.
Footnotes:
Delhi was the setting for the three great Imperial Assemblages or Durbar's between 1855-1915. The final and the greatest of the three Durbar's was in 1911 to celebrate the accession of George V and Queen Mary, which coincided with the relocation of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi.

Lord Carmichael was appointed governor of Madras in 1911 and in April 1912, was appointed the first governor of the state of Bengal, a position that had been newly reconstituted and announced by the King-Emperor at the Delhi Durbar. Lord Carmichael is believed to have designed and presented a number of these pendants to his guests at the Durbar. Similar examples in a fitted Boucheron cases were sold at Bonhams London, October 2, 2003, lot 231, and December 9, 2009, lot 5.