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A Khorasan openwork bronze Incense Burner in the form of a Bird Persia, 12th Century image 1
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Lot 41

A Khorasan openwork bronze Incense Burner in the form of a Bird
Persia, 12th Century

Islamic and Indian Art
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £11,250 inc. premium

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A Khorasan openwork bronze Incense Burner in the form of a Bird
Persia, 12th Century

with large feet and hinged head, the body decorated in openwork with roundels containing six-petalled rosettes on a ground of interlaced horse-shoe motifs, the back with scrolling foliate vines, the lower end of rings engraved with stylised feathers, the neck with a band of inscription in kufic, the hinged head decorated to the back in openwork with a band containing a scrolling vine
20 cm. high

Footnotes

Inscriptions: barakah kamilah wa ni'mah shamilah, 'Perfect Blessing and Complete [God's] Grace'.

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