The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Online
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Online
A miniature steel Qur'an case and calligraphic finial, India, Deccan, 18th-19th century
Lot Closed
October 27, 01:51 PM GMT
Estimate
200 - 300 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the steel box of octagonal form with separate cover, the sides decorated with damascened cursive calligraphic and arabesque cartouches, the finial of flat polylobed palmette form with trefoil finial, decorated in relief and damascened with cursive calligraphy
box 4.3cm. max. diam.
finial 4.8cm. max.
Sotheby's London, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One, Arts of the Islamic World, 6 April 2011, lot 163.
inscriptions:
The Qur'an case: Invocations to God
The finial: "Ya Allah" - "O God!"
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