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A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales Persia, 19th Century image 1
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Lot 77R

A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales
Persia, 19th Century

26 October 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,550 inc. premium

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A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales
Persia, 19th Century

of rectangular form with hinged lid, containing a set of steel balances and brass pans and nine weights of various sizes, the box decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays and perching birds, the border of the lid with a series of inscription-filled cartouches
13 x 18.3 x 2.8 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private UK collection.

Inscriptions: 'After having put together the letter of our sins They took it and weighed it against [our] deeds'.

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