Hatefi Collections

A SAFAVID TINNED-COPPER MONEY BOWL

DESCRIPTION:
of compressed globular form with everted rim, the neck engraved with calligraphic cartouches, the body incised with scrolling palmettes on a hatched ground

PERIOD:
17TH CENTURY

A SAFAVID CARVED WOOD MIRROR COVER

DESCRIPTION:
Magnificent, safavid carved wood with quranic inscriptios of rectangular form decorated with birds among flower sprays, the cover open to reveal a mirror painted with narcissus on a red ground.

PERIOD:
EARLY 17TH CENTURY

A SMALL FINE MAMLUK SLIVER-INLAID CAST BRASS BOWL

DESCRIPTION:
A small fine mamluk of deep rounded form decorated around the rim with an elegant benedictory inscriptions separated by four roundels, two containing a whirling rosette and two containing a central lotus palmette surrounded by small florets and leaves, with a band of arabesques and short lancet leaves on the reverse, with an arabesques in the centre of the interior.

PERIOD:
Late 13th or early 14th Century

QAJARIC PAIR OF STEEL DOOR KNOCKERS WITH THE BACK PLATE

DESCRIPTION:
In the form motifs face heads with extended tongues forming a loop with suspended Palmetto with the authentic patina and erosion.

PERIOD:
19Th Century

AN ISLAMIC CAST IRON CALLIGRAPHY

DESCRIPTION:
Presenting In a form of seven pointed Islamic star openwork cast-iron beautifully stands in Nastaliq.

PERIOD:
19Th Century

AN ISLAMIC BRASS CAST OPENWORK ENGRAVED

DESCRIPTION:
This suspension bracket could well have been from a large, freestanding quadrant, sextant or astrolabe in an astronomical observatory...

PERIOD:
1st half of 13th century

AN ISLAMIC DECANI DOUBLED-HEADED STEEL AXEHEAD

DESCRIPTION:
With two opposing crescent-shaped blades tapered at the centre leading to a cylindrical, and a welded dragons heads intertwined with grooved haft socket with narrow polygonal finial.

PERIOD:
Late 15th to earliest 16th Century

A SAFAVID CARVED PIERCED AND ENGRAVED STEEL AXE

DESCRIPTION:
Each face chiselled and deeply engraved handle with a Quranic inscription's to raised lobed cartouche of interlacing split-palmettes and naturalistic floral motifs with a pendant cartouche enclosing a deer, &, the rabbit close to the edges incised and chiselled with designs of flowers, the reverse of the head similarly worked with a scene of tiger hunting over the head of squats deer.

PERIOD:
MID 17TH CENTURY

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