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An engraved jade bowl Persia, probably 18th/ 19th Century image 1
An engraved jade bowl Persia, probably 18th/ 19th Century image 2
Lot 71R

An engraved jade bowl
Persia, probably 18th/ 19th Century

11 June 2020, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,687.50 inc. premium

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An engraved jade bowl
Persia, probably 18th/ 19th Century

of deep elongated form on a short splayed foot, engraved to the sides with a series of cartouches filled with inscriptions in nasta'liq on a ground of scrolling floral vines
7.8 cm. long

Footnotes

Inscriptions: two couplets in Persian invoking God to keep the king on the throne as long as there is a Sun and a Moon. One of the couplets (with the difference of one word), is from Sa'di's Bustan from the section in which he praises Muhammad ibn Sa'd.

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