Lot 177
Two silver-mounted engraved stone Seals India, 18th-19th Century(2)
23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£600 - £800
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Find your local specialistTwo silver-mounted engraved stone Seals
India, 18th-19th Century
India, 18th-19th Century
both of oval form, the first of bloodstone engraved with a line of inscription on a ground of floral vines, the mount of domed form surmounted by suspension loop; the second of rock crystal engraved with a line of inscription surrounded by a floral vine, the fob consisting of foliate vines surmounted by suspension loop
the bloodstone 2.3 x 1.6 cm.(2)
the bloodstone 2.3 x 1.6 cm.(2)
Footnotes
Inscription:
1)'Turner Makon [Mccann?] 1824.'
2)'Nadir Jang AH 1200/AD 1785-86.'
Nadir Jang is perhaps Munir ul-Mulk, Munir ud-Daula, Nawab Reza Quli Khan Bahadur, Nadir Jung, sometime Chief Minister to Shah Alam II and Nazim of Allahabad and Kora (reigned 1759-88).