A SYRIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID AND MASHRABIYE DOUBLE CHAIR, each with flat panelled back, curving flat-topped arms and bow-fronted base on turned feet, all surfaces with carved panels of arabesque medallions or stylised geometric kufic inscriptions within panels of extremely fine mashrabiye work within borders of mother-of-pearl inlaid geometric panelled designs, carved openwork cresting above and below, circa 1900 (slight damages ot mashrabiye, some panels loose)

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A SYRIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID AND MASHRABIYE DOUBLE CHAIR, each with flat panelled back, curving flat-topped arms and bow-fronted base on turned feet, all surfaces with carved panels of arabesque medallions or stylised geometric kufic inscriptions within panels of extremely fine mashrabiye work within borders of mother-of-pearl inlaid geometric panelled designs, carved openwork cresting above and below, circa 1900 (slight damages ot mashrabiye, some panels loose)
3ft.11in. (119cm.) high, 6ft.9in. (206cm.) wide

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