Sale 5526
London, South Kensington
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10 October 2014
Price realised
GBP 750
Estimate
A QAJAR OPENWORK STEEL SHIELD IRAN, 19TH CENTURY Of circular form, with four applied gold-damascened bosses, the engraved decoration consisting of large oval medallions in loose nastal'iq script between two registers of stylised floral motifs in elongated cartouches to the borders, the body with openwork calligraphic lobed medallions with further calligraphic inscriptions highlighted in gold arranged around a central open work bosse worked as a stylised human face 20 ¼in. (51.5cm.) diam.
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