A FINE EARLY QAJAR LACQUER QUR'AN BINDING formed by two board covers linked by a plain leather spine, the face of each board painted on a gold glitter ground with a variety of delicately executed floral tendrils around a cusped black ogival medallion containing an elegant thuluth inscription with similar pendants, in a similar black border between minor stripes, the reverse of each with a narcissus spray flanked by other flowers on a red ground within narrow borders, dated 1216 (1801-2 AD) (relacquered, spine splitting)

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A FINE EARLY QAJAR LACQUER QUR'AN BINDING formed by two board covers linked by a plain leather spine, the face of each board painted on a gold glitter ground with a variety of delicately executed floral tendrils around a cusped black ogival medallion containing an elegant thuluth inscription with similar pendants, in a similar black border between minor stripes, the reverse of each with a narcissus spray flanked by other flowers on a red ground within narrow borders, dated 1216 (1801-2 AD) (relacquered, spine splitting)
11 1/8 x 7¾in. (28.4 x 19.7cm.)

Lot Essay

The relatively early date during the Qajar period for this qur'an binding is attested by the similarity in the floral decoration of the gold glitter ground to the Zand cover also in the sale, lot 182. It also continues the earlier concept of having a border of strong inscription panels, similar to covers by Ahmad al-Neirizi dating from a hundred years earlier, an example of which is on the qur'an in lot ???.

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