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A LARGE MAMLUK REVIVAL SQUARE CASKET AND COVER
ON FOUR CIRCULAR FEET, HEAVILY INLAID IN SILVER AND DECORATED WITH BORDERS OF RAISED STUDDED BANDS ENCLOSING NASKH, NASTALIQ AND KUFIC INSCRIPTIONSINTERSPERSED WITH FLOWERS AND INTERLACING ARABESQUES, THE CORNERS WITH FLOWERHEAD ROUNDELS, THE INTERIOR IN MIXED WOOD AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID PARQUETRY DECORATED WITH NUMEROUS GEOMETRIC DESIGNS -- 15½.IN (39.5CM) WIDE, 19TH CENTURY.
SEE FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION.
ON FOUR CIRCULAR FEET, HEAVILY INLAID IN SILVER AND DECORATED WITH BORDERS OF RAISED STUDDED BANDS ENCLOSING NASKH, NASTALIQ AND KUFIC INSCRIPTIONSINTERSPERSED WITH FLOWERS AND INTERLACING ARABESQUES, THE CORNERS WITH FLOWERHEAD ROUNDELS, THE INTERIOR IN MIXED WOOD AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID PARQUETRY DECORATED WITH NUMEROUS GEOMETRIC DESIGNS -- 15½.IN (39.5CM) WIDE, 19TH CENTURY.
SEE FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION.