Sale 5127
London
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18 May 1994
Price realised
GBP 1,380
Estimate
AN INDIAN LACQUERED BOW painted with gold interlaced foliage against a yellow ground over most of its surface, within red, green and gold painted borders, painted at the grip and towards the tips with gold foliage against a red ground, and each tip with an Arabic inscription, probably 18th Century
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The inscriptions read in translation: 'Bend back at end'
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