Lot 192
A large brass Mirror Western Persia or Fars, 13th Century
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,800 inc. premium
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Western Persia or Fars, 13th Century
Western Persia or Fars, 13th Century
circular, in a brownish and golden patina, elaborately incised with a central roundel bearing a prince seated on a throne, the outer band with roundels bearing seated musicians on a ground of scrolling floral vines, within borders and bands of continuous arabesque interlace and flowerheads, traces of silver inlay
25.8 cm. diam.
25.8 cm. diam.
Footnotes
A.S. Melikian-Chirvani states that the inclusion of musicians within roundels on metalwork is a new addition 'to the earlier Iranian repertoire as we know it from Khorasan wares'. See Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th-18th Centuries, London, 1982, no. 75, p. 169.