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Lot 115

An openwork brass processional standard ('alam) Section
Deccan, India, dated AH 1203/AD 1788

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

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An openwork brass processional standard ('alam) Section
Deccan, India, dated AH 1203/AD 1788

of square form with sloping roof, a circular opening at the top, each corner supported with a pillar-shaped shaft with a bud finial, the sides with openwork decoration composed of a square central panel bearing inscriptions within a floral border, a narrow border of crenellations above, the roof with inscription-filled cartouches flanked by cypress trees and inscription-filled borders
22 x 17 x 17 cm.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: Qur'an, sura CVIII, al-Kawthar and sura CIX, al-Kafirun, and invocations to God. On the sides, a repetition of: 'O Muhammad!'

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