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LOT 1285
Western Asiatic Qu'ran Painted Miniature Leaf
20TH CENTURY A.D.
11 3/8 in. (7 grams, 28.9 cm).
Mulberry paper leaf with ragged edges, rows of large cursive text to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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Opening Bid: £250
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Western Asiatic Aramaic Pendant Seal Matrix
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Opening Bid: £850
Discoid in plan with lug to upper face and suspension loop; underside with incuse pellets to the rim surrounding a tondo with two lines of incised text. 10.77 grams, 24 mm
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Columnar in profile and pierced laterally, incuse scene of two standing figures facing each other with a smaller figure, bird (?) and sun with crescent moon between them; a second pair of figures facing each other, one of them worn. 12.3 grams, 25 mm
Ex Constable collection, 1990s. Ex P. Morris collection. Accompanied by four old photographs, one dated 'Bromley 1995'.
