IRAN, AH 1122/1710-11 AD

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A SAFAVID LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX
IRAN, AH 1122/1710-11 AD
Of circular form, with separate cover, decorated all over in shades of reds, yellows, greens and browns with a dense arrangement of flowering sprays, flowerheads, birds and butterflies, the lid with central gold roundel and a concentric band around the edge of six long inscription cartouches filled with flowing nasta'liq script and alternating with smaller quatrefoil inscription cartouches, slight damages
10¼in. (26cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The long inscription cartouches around the lid have the nada 'ali quatrain, followed by a couplet: rasid dast bi-dast az 'ali vali Allah , negin-e mohr bi-Sultan Husayn-e zill Allah which translates: "From 'Ali, the friend of God, it went from hand to hand, the seal to Sultan Husayn [son of] the shadow of God".

The smaller cartouches read: Ya Allah (O God), Ya Rahman (O Compassionate), Ya Rahim (O Merciful), Ya Karim (O Bountiful), Katabahu Muhammad sana 1122 (Muhammad wrote in 1122).

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