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A three-section folding wood mashrabiyya screen with enamelled copper panels Syria, probably Damascus, 19th Century image 1
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Lot 49
A three-section folding wood mashrabiyya screen with enamelled copper panels
Syria, probably Damascus, 19th Century
30 March 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A three-section folding wood mashrabiyya screen with enamelled copper panels
Syria, probably Damascus, 19th Century

inlaid with mother of pearl, each section with three larger rectangular enamelled panels and four smaller square enamelled panels, all interspersed with pierced mashrabiyya work sections, the upper part of each section with carved inscriptions in Arabic, and a further inscription on one of the enamel panels
200 cm. high; each section 60 cm. wide; total width 180 cm.

Footnotes

The inscriptions on the wood sections read: Kull hall yazul, 'Every state ceases to exist'; those on the enamelled panels read Al-sultan al-'alima fi [...], 'The learned sultan in [...].'

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