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Lot 47

A Qajar silver-mounted inscribed carnelian Armband (bazuband)
Persia, 19th Century

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

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

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A Qajar silver-mounted inscribed carnelian Armband (bazuband)
Persia, 19th Century

rectangular, engraved with a central cartouche containing inscriptions on a ground of floral interlace, surrounded by four panels containing inscriptions on a ground of scrolling floral vines, the silver mount with two hinged suspension loops decorated in openwork with foliate motifs
8 x 6 cm.

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Inscriptions: in the centre, huwa. 'azza man qana'a wa dhalla man tama'a, He (God). Powerful is the one who is content and contemptible is he, who is greedy'; in the borders, Arabic verses attributed to Imam 'Ali.

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