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A RARE QAJAR SET OF SCALES LACQUERED JEWELLERS BOX

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A RARE QAJAR SET OF SCALES LACQUERED JEWELLERS BOX
EXTREMELY RARE ANTIQUE QAJAR SET OF WEIGHTS SCALES LACQUERED JEWELRY WOODEN BOX PERSIAN 19th
Century Qajar dynasty, wood weighing scales box with Polychrome-CARVED and lacquered decoration. Floral decoration enlivened
with birds and epigraphic cartouches. Two small drawers on sides, one presenting a mirror, A MERCHANT'S LACQUERED BOX OF
SCALES, SIGNED HASHEM and DATED ,The maker’s mark (in Persian Arabic) is engraved into a brass hinged lid that covers a
small compartment inside the box., QAJAR,The sides with floral cartouches, the hinged lid with an Image of Horse Carved within a
radiating motif Designs, with three scales and weights set, Of rectangular form, the panels with palmettes between bands of foliated
scrolls, the flat lid opening to reveal the implements including scales and weight, the decoration with further vegetal scrolling
motifs.The unit of measurement represented by the weights was themithqal of 4.46 grams, and each weight represented either a
multiple or a some part of a mithqal.Tool boxes decorated with lacquer were made in Persia from at least the eighteenth century
(Savage-Smith, 1997, p. 402). Boxes such as these were made for merchants who traded in jewellery or small quantities of gold.A
related boxed set of weights and scales – possibly by the same maker whose name is given as Mirza Baba – is in the Nasser D.
Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and illustrated in Savage-Smith, 1997, p. 404.ReferencesSavage-Smith, E., The Nasser D. Khalili
Collection of Islamic Art: Science, Tools & Magic, Part Two: Mundane Worlds, The Nour Foundation, 1997.
124: A RARE ISLAMIC SAFAVID/MUGHAL ENGRAVED BRASS MAGIC BOWL USD