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A QAJAR ENAMELLED SILVER WATER PIPE (NARGILEH)
PERSIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
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GBP 2,875
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A QAJAR ENAMELLED SILVER WATER PIPE (NARGILEH)
PERSIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
The base of drop form with plain copper body terminating in a lower knop, the shoulder covered with a silver panel worked in repouss with a band of bird combat roundels alternating with elegant floral sprays, further birds in the spandrels, all on a blue enamel ground, a band of inscription cartouches and meandering floral designs above, extruded at one point for the outlet pipe socket, a cusped panel descending over the body below that similarly worked with a portrait roundel on scrolling flowering vine ground, the bowl similarly worked with an arcade of engraved floral sprays on a blue enamel ground, supported on a carved wooden stem, associated silver chains, perspex block mount and elongation to shaft
Overall 16.7/8in. (43.9cm.) high
PERSIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
The base of drop form with plain copper body terminating in a lower knop, the shoulder covered with a silver panel worked in repouss with a band of bird combat roundels alternating with elegant floral sprays, further birds in the spandrels, all on a blue enamel ground, a band of inscription cartouches and meandering floral designs above, extruded at one point for the outlet pipe socket, a cusped panel descending over the body below that similarly worked with a portrait roundel on scrolling flowering vine ground, the bowl similarly worked with an arcade of engraved floral sprays on a blue enamel ground, supported on a carved wooden stem, associated silver chains, perspex block mount and elongation to shaft
Overall 16.7/8in. (43.9cm.) high
A QAJAR ENAMELLED SILVER WATER PIPE (NARGILEH)
PERSIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
The base of drop form with plain copper body terminating in a lower knop, the shoulder covered with a silver panel worked in repouss with a band of bird combat roundels alternating with elegant floral sprays, further birds in the spandrels, all on a blue enamel ground, a band of inscription cartouches and meandering floral designs above, extruded at one point for the outlet pipe socket, a cusped panel descending over the body below that similarly worked with a portrait roundel on scrolling flowering vine ground, the bowl similarly worked with an arcade of engraved floral sprays on a blue enamel ground, supported on a carved wooden stem, associated silver chains, perspex block mount and elongation to shaft
Overall 16.7/8in. (43.9cm.) high
PERSIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
The base of drop form with plain copper body terminating in a lower knop, the shoulder covered with a silver panel worked in repouss with a band of bird combat roundels alternating with elegant floral sprays, further birds in the spandrels, all on a blue enamel ground, a band of inscription cartouches and meandering floral designs above, extruded at one point for the outlet pipe socket, a cusped panel descending over the body below that similarly worked with a portrait roundel on scrolling flowering vine ground, the bowl similarly worked with an arcade of engraved floral sprays on a blue enamel ground, supported on a carved wooden stem, associated silver chains, perspex block mount and elongation to shaft
Overall 16.7/8in. (43.9cm.) high
專家說明
The inscription cartouches around the shoulder contain Persian verses in praise of silver qalian pipes.