Details
LOT 4174
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 5 Dirham. 18th-19th century AD.
Fourteen-sided cubic weight with six large square facets, and eight triangle facets; one square facet with five punches. Cf. CPAI 1, 393-399 (no punches). Condition as seen.(15.45gr, 13mm.).
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
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