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LOT 1798
Post Medieval Bronze Trade Weight Collection
CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
1 - 1 7/8 in. (260 grams total, 24-47 mm).
Discoid types with socket to one face, stamped values. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Simmons gallery, London, UK.
From a North London collection, 1990s.
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Framed Watercolour Painting by Nezami
Persia, 18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Showing two figures seated facing in a landscape, beneath a tree, the older male figure reading from a book to the younger, possibly his son, gilt embellishments to their rich clothing and books, signed Nezami bottom left under the seated man; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame. 503 grams, 31 x 23.5 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Tudor Bronze Corpus Christi
Circa 16th-17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Modelled with oversized pierced hands, head tilted, textured loincloth; mounted on a custom-made stand. 103 grams total, 13 cm including stand
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
North African Framed Qur'an Manuscript Leaf
Late 19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Written in Maghribi script with polychrome vocals and diacritics, red border framing the text; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 456 grams, 27.5 x 22.5 cm
Fine condition.
From Morocco, North Africa. Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
Originally produced as part of a now disbound Qur'an produced in North Africa, likely in a provincial town. The origins of the script in which it is written date back to 7th century Kairouan, when the Kufic script developed in the East and the Maghribi script in North Africa, today used predominantly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
