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Lot 44

A Safavid tinned-copper Vase
Persia, 17th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

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A Safavid tinned-copper Vase
Persia, 17th Century

in the form of a mosque lamp with compressed globular body on a short foot with long flaring neck, engraved with cartouches containing lotuses and other vegetal motifs, various quadrupeds and inscriptions, with later owner's inscription, later tinning to surface
25 cm. high

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Provenance
Private UK collection formed in the 1950s and thence by descent.

Inscriptions: Persian couplets one from Sa'di's Bustan (frequently found on metalwork, see A. S. Melikian Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, London 1982,p. 252) and the other is Daqigi's; owner's name, Panjeh-Gol, daughter of Khwajah Hafiz Sabzevari; later owner's name, Gol-Muhammad Khan son of Rajab Khan.

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