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IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
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A LARGE QAJAR GOLD-DAMASCENED STEEL CEREMONIAL MACE HEAD
IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
In the form of a bull's head, the engraved decoration with animals on dense foliated ground, with three gold-damascened medallions, the first inscribed to the forehead in nasta'liq script with the name of Sultan Nasir al-Din Shah, together with a lobed medallion below with a courtier dispatching a letter, on the reverse a mounted horseman and a lion pouncing on a gazelle, on stand
14 3/8in. (36.7cm.) height on stand
IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
In the form of a bull's head, the engraved decoration with animals on dense foliated ground, with three gold-damascened medallions, the first inscribed to the forehead in nasta'liq script with the name of Sultan Nasir al-Din Shah, together with a lobed medallion below with a courtier dispatching a letter, on the reverse a mounted horseman and a lion pouncing on a gazelle, on stand
14 3/8in. (36.7cm.) height on stand