
Matthew Thomas
Senior Specialist
£8,000 - £12,000
Senior Specialist
This lot is accompanied by a thermoluminesce analysis report from Oxford Authentication Ltd, which is consistent with the period of manufacture (Sample No. N115b62).
Inkwells or dawat were a symbol or metaphor for the instrument of state with a long history in Islamic Persia. Examples have been preserved in glass and mainly metal, with far fewer extant in pottery, particularly on the scale of the present lot.
This lot is withdrawn.