SIX TIMURID AND EARLY SAFAVID ENGRAVED JADE SEALS
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SIX TIMURID AND EARLY SAFAVID ENGRAVED JADE SEALS

PERSIA, 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY

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SIX TIMURID AND EARLY SAFAVID ENGRAVED JADE SEALS
PERSIA, 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY
Comprising five circular and one octagonal examples in various shades and types of nephrite, one engraved with religious invocations forming a geometric pattern, the other five with the names of the owners, one drilled, one with slight chip
largest 1in. (2.5cm.) diam. (6)
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The inscriptions on the seals are as follows:
1. Confident in the independant King, Muhammad b. Jalal Khurasani
2. Confident in the omnipotent King, the servant [of God] Bastam 'Ali b. Khabir
3. Confident in the King of both worlds, the servant [of God], Yar Ahmad b. Adam b. Husayn, 888.
The owner may well have been a Turkman; there is one earlier Yar Ahmad the Turkman who came to meet Shah Rukh from Burda' and Ganja in the year 823/1420-21.
4. Confident in the independant King, Abu'l-Ma'ali b.'Ali Ashgar al-Husayni.
5. The one who is ready at the service of the King, Qasim b. Husayn Nasrullah.
6. A repetition of "I put my trust in God" in both positive and negative.