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Lot 78

A Lobmeyr enamelled glass Dish
Vienna, circa 1880

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

£8,000 - £12,000

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A Lobmeyr enamelled glass Dish
Vienna, circa 1880

of shallow form, the clear glass decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt with a central roundel containing geometric designs based around a six-pointed star surrounded by a narrow band containing Arabic inscriptions in naskhi and a wide band containing radiating petal motifs alternately filled with geometric designs and floral sprays and flanked by further lines of Arabic inscriptions in cursive script, the reverse with enamelled Lobmeyr monogram to centre, surrounded by a band of enamelled German inscriptions
38.5 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: in Arabic, repeat of, al-'aql aqwaya asas wa al-taqwa afdal al-ba's, 'Reason is the strongest foundation and pious life, the best of fortitude'; in German, 'Intelligence is man's best support, honesty is man's best trait.'

For a similar dish sold at Christie's see Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 31 March 2009, lot 231.

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