Enrica Medugno
Sale Coordinator
Lot 324R
Two engraved brass bowls
Persia, 14th and 19th Century
(3)
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£600 - £800
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Oliver White
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Two engraved brass bowls
Persia, 14th and 19th Century
Persia, 14th and 19th Century
the first of rounded form with tapering sides and flattened rim, engraved with a band of inscriptions in thuluth interspersed by rosettes, with later owner's inscriptions to base; the second of similar form, engraved and decorated in silver inlay with cartouches filled with figural scenes to sides and base; and a painted bone belt, Iran, 20th Century, comprising a series of interlinked bone panels painted with floral interlace and figural scenes
the larger bowl 23 cm. diam.(3)
the larger bowl 23 cm. diam.(3)
Footnotes
Provenance
Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, UK.
Inscriptions: al-'izz wa al-baqa/ al-jud wa al-sakh[a]/ wa al-hilm / wa al-haya .../ wa al-'ata / al-nur wa al-diya/ wa al-'ilm / wa ..., 'Glory and long-life, generosity and liberality and forbearance and modesty ... and favour, light and illumination and knowledge ...' To the base, owners' names, 'Qasim' and 'Bakhtiyar 19'.
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