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TO BE SOLD WITH NO RESERVE A Qajar marriage certificate, Iran, dated 6 Jamadi ul-Thani 1307 AH /...
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TO BE SOLD WITH NO RESERVE
A Qajar marriage certificate,
Iran, dated 6 Jamadi ul-Thani 1307 AH /...
Price Realised: £26
Estimate: £100 - £150
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Lot 81
Description
TO BE SOLD WITH NO RESERVE
A Qajar marriage certificate,
Iran, dated 6 Jamadi ul-Thani 1307 AH / 27 January 1890 AD,
Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, blue, red, and yellow pigments, the whole heightened with gold, lobed cartouches and gold foliate scrolling tendrils, the Arabic words written in naskh script, the Persian in shikasteh nasta’liq script, the heading opening with the bismillah within a rectangular red cartouche, the text panel margined with three roundels containing pointed arches, mounted, framed and glazed,
The contract 70.5cm x 50cm., 75.5cm x 55cm. framed.
Lot Footnotes
The contract between Khan Baba Khan and Humayun Khanom, daughter of Aqa Mohammad Hossein Beg Ardaki, for the dowry of 'ten Nasir al-Din Shahi treasury toomans, twelve mithqals of worked gold valued at twelve tomans, twelve mann (three kilos) of tray-ware (copper vessels), one set of carpeting, and one set of bedding valued at ten tomans, a total of forty-eight tomans',
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