Sale 5526
London, South Kensington
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10 October 2014
Price realised
GBP 3,000
Estimate
EIGHT HARDSTONE INTAGLIO PENDANTS ZAND AND QAJAR IRAN, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY Each with finely carved nasta’liq inscription, mostly religious; including an intaglio carved with a portrait of Husayn, the reverse with the name of the Shi’I family; a bazuband formed by three intaglios in silver mounts; A seal dated AH 1210; another seal; Three pendants of oval form; And an octagonal white inlaid intaglio dated AH 1182/1768-69 AD The bazuband 2 ¾in. (7cm.) across
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