Lot 53R
A Khorasan silver inlaid bronze mug Persia, 12th century
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A Khorasan silver inlaid bronze mug
Persia, 12th century
Persia, 12th century
of compressed globular form on a splayed foot with waisted neck, with gadrooned band to body, the neck engraved and inlaid in silver with a band of inscription in thuluth on a ground of vegetal interlace with perching birds, the letters surmounted by human faces
16.2 cm. high.
16.2 cm. high.
Footnotes
Inscriptions: al-'izz wa al-iqbal wa al-dawlah wa ... al-sa'a[d]ah wa ..., 'Glory and prosperity and wealth and ... and happiness and ...'.
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