A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales Persia, dated AH 1242/ AD 1826-27 rectangular, the interior containing two sets of steel balances and brass pans, one with gold damascened decoration, ten weights of various sizes, the interior decorated in polychrome and gold with foliage, perching birds and urns with floral sprays, the exterior with floral sprays and portrait medallions to the side, the top with a noble youth visiting a holy man, the borders with inscription-filled cartouches 32.9 x 19 x 6 cm. Fußnoten Inscriptions: couplets from Firdausi's Shahnamah.
A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales Persia, dated AH 1242/ AD 1826-27 rectangular, the interior containing two sets of steel balances and brass pans, one with gold damascened decoration, ten weights of various sizes, the interior decorated in polychrome and gold with foliage, perching birds and urns with floral sprays, the exterior with floral sprays and portrait medallions to the side, the top with a noble youth visiting a holy man, the borders with inscription-filled cartouches 32.9 x 19 x 6 cm. Fußnoten Inscriptions: couplets from Firdausi's Shahnamah.
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