Matthew Thomas
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Lot 37
A Qara Qoyunlu hinged gold Seal of Sa'dat Sultan North west Persia, 15th Century
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A Qara Qoyunlu hinged gold Seal of Sa'dat Sultan
North west Persia, 15th Century
North west Persia, 15th Century
consisting of two hinged elements which close to form an ovoid pendant engraved to the exterior with scrolling interlace, the tendrils forming a lobed palmette, with trefoil openwork fob, the interior panels opening to reveal an inscription in naskhi script
32 mm. long (open)
32 mm. long (open)
Footnotes
Inscriptions: 'Sa'adat Sultan daughter of Hamzah Tarkhan'.
The Qara Qoyunlu, or the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a Shia Oghuz Turkic tribal federation which ruled over an area to the north west of Persia which included the present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, and parts of Iran, Turkey and Iraq. They eagerly adopted the Timurid artistic style and their development of pictorial and decorative schemes. They did not, however, simply reproduce the aesthetic of earlier Timurid works. Their manuscripts, for example, blended the distinct metropolitan traditions of Herat and Shiraz.