AN OPENWORK AND DEEPLY CARVED WOODEN QUR'AN STAND (KURSI)
AN OPENWORK AND DEEPLY CARVED WOODEN QUR'AN STAND (KURSI)

NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN OPENWORK AND DEEPLY CARVED WOODEN QUR'AN STAND (KURSI)
NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form, the openwork upper register with an elegant floral spray rising and spreading out of a ewer, the feet worked as elaborate lobed pointed arches with hanging palmettes, the spandrels deeply carved with tulips, vine, carnations and bunch of grapes
25in. (6.5cm.) long, folded

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