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Lot 116

An openwork bronze processional standard ('alam)
Deccan, 17th/ 18th Century

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

£5,000 - £7,000

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An openwork bronze processional standard ('alam)
Deccan, 17th/ 18th Century

of drop-shaped form decorated in openwork with a central panel containing inscriptions surrounded by a border of inscriptions, the border with six cast dragon heads, surmounted by a crest consisting of four tapering elements, mounted
52.5 x 46 cm.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: in the centre, the names, 'God, Muhammad, 'Ali'; in the border, Call to God to bless Muhammad and the twelve Imams; on the back as the top, invocations to God; in the borders, Qur'an, chapter II (al-baqarah), verse 255, in the band under the openwork, remains of an inscription in Persian, .... marjan shah-e vali ra hast bandeh/......, '.... Marjan is the salve of Imam 'Ali ....'

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