• A BRASS TORCH STAND (MASH'AL)
  • Handicrafts and classics, Metal
  • 29 cm
  • IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY
    With faceted body and splayed foot, the main register of decoration engraved with split-palmette motifs between chevrons, repeating bands of scrolling vines against a hatched ground above and below, cartouches with nasta'liq below the mouth, two openwork handles in the shape of palmettes, later owner's inscriptions around the mouth, above and below the main register
    11 1⁄4in. (29cm.) high




Estimation
£6,000
7,897 USD
- £8,000
10,529 USD
Unsold
Artwork Description


In the cartouches below the mouth: .... Husayn, 'Ali, bin Astad qatb tabakh (?).... and Sahib-e Ashraf
On the plain band above the main register: Abu al-Hasan
Around the mouth: 'Abd Muhammad Haqat and 'aavar (?)
On the plain band below the main register: Hasan

A very similar candlestick with chevron design but missing its handles sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2018, lot 58. For further examples see A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World. 8-18th Centuries, London, 1982, pl.138-140, pp. 311-313.



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