拍品 360
360
A SILVER AND NIELLO AMULET

PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY

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A SILVER AND NIELLO AMULET
PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY
The rectangular pendant of box construction, both sides with a kufic inscription surrounding a split palmette inlaid in silver on a niello ground, the side with a simple stippled pattern, attachment loops, small losses to niello
.7/8 x ½in. (2.4 x 2cm.)

拍品專文

The kufic inscription is the sura al-Ikhlas, cdii (Purity of faith). See also lot 342 for the same inscription.
A very similar amulet box inlaid with niello is in the David Collection (Folsach, K.V.: Islamic Art, the David Collection, Copenhagen, 1990, no.376, p.219)