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LOT 1459
Ottoman Period Engraved Silver Calligraphic Intaglio
LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (4.78 grams, 18 mm).
A circular mount with an X-motif on the reverse, the obverse with a three-line inscription; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
Cf. Gerelyes, I., ‘Ottoman seals at the Hungarian National Museum: connections between shapes, inscriptions, and materials’ in Gergely, S. (ed.), Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, Budapest, 2023, pp.277-295, fig.5, for similar intaglio on a seal.
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