
Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
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Senior Sale Coordinator

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Provenance
Property from the private collection of Dr Mohammad Said Farsi and thence by descent to the present owner.
Inscriptions: around the neck, Qur'an, chapter XXIV (al-nur), parts of verse 35; around the body, 'izz li-mawlana/ al-sultan/al-malik/ al-za/hir abu sa'id nasarahu allah, 'Glory to our lord, the sultan, al-Malik al-Zahir Abu Sa'id, may God help him.'
Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi was the Mayor and then Lord Mayor of Jeddah in the 1970s and 1980s, where he played a crucial role in transforming the city into one of the largest open-air galleries in the world by commissioning monumental sculptures by famous international and Middle Eastern artists, including Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Hans Arp, and Alexander Calder.