A PAIR OF KHORASSAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID SQUARE BRASS TRAYS

Lot 8
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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£ 40 000
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Lot 8 | A PAIR OF KHORASSAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID SQUARE BRASS TRAYS
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
A PAIR OF KHORASSAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID SQUARE BRASS TRAYS
NORTH EAST IRAN, 12TH/EARLY 13TH CENTURY
The trays each with a central recessed eight-petalled rosette framed by an eight-sided star, narrow border and raised rim, an arabesque roundel inlaid with silver and copper at the centre of the rosette, further silver and copper inlaid geometric and palmette medallions throughout, the border with inscriptions on scrolling arabesque ground, stylised palm leaves in the corners, the reverse and interior plain
9 x 9in. (22 x 22cm.)




Provenance

With Middle Eastern Trade, 1994
London by 2003



Engraved

With extra letters and in some cases ta-marbuta written as alif: al-‘izz wa’l-iqbal wa’l-dawla wa’l-salama wa’l-sa al-sa‘ada wa a al-‘inaya wa’l-qana‘a wa a al-dawama wa’l-tamma a wa’l-tamma wa’l-qudra wa’l-qadira wa’l [a]’l-shukr wa’l-shakira, ‘Glory and prosperity and wealth and well-being and … happiness and solicitude and contentment and … endurance and completeness … and completeness and power and powerfulness and … gratitude and gratefulness’
al-‘izz wa’l-iqbal a a wa’l-dawla wa’l-salama wa’l-sa [a]l-sa‘ada wa’l-‘inaya wa’l-qana‘a wa’l-dawama wa’l-tamma wa’l-tamma wa a al-qudra wa’l-qadira, ‘Glory and prosperity … and wealth and well-being and … happiness and solicitude and contentment and endurance and completeness and completeness and power and powerfulness …’



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